The portrayal of the writer in Quebec literature is part of a history of emancipation, mismatches and resistances. Since André Belleau’s early works, that portrayal has evolved, and in the 2000s, an altogether more confident and more evanescent novelist figure than in the 1960s and 1970s can be noticed. Writers, by portraying themselves in their fiction, highlight the attacks repeatedly made by theory and society against their creative authority. This article studies such concepts through the analysis of Une estafette chez Artaud by Nicolas Tremblay and Pleurer comme dans les films by Guillaume Corbeil. By examining various figures of writer (Bartleby, the anti-writer, the fraudulent writer, etc.), this study thereby observes the status of literature in contemporary Quebec literature.