Ha!: A Self-Murder MysteryMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2003 M10 7 - 864 pages On 15 March 1977, with his wife's consent, celebrated writer and former terrorist Hubert Aquin blew his brains out on the grounds of a Montreal convent school. Shocked by this self-murder, a filmmaker friend feels compelled to understand why Aquin killed himself - and discovers, at the heart of the tragedy, an unforgettable love story. A "documentary fiction" - a category which includes In Cold Blood and The Executioner's Song - HA! is a seminal work that reinvents the audio-visual revolution of the last century. Interweaving photographs, documents, and images with testimony from Aquin's friends and contemporaries, Aquin himself, and the writers and artists who influenced him, this intriguing novel takes the reader on a Joycean tour of a metropolis in the midst of political and cultural turmoil. |
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... feel destroyed. I haven't managed to reconstruct my life and I don't wish to do so. I have made a choice. I feel peaceful, my act is positive. More- over, I have always known that I would his suicide was the result of an assessment he ...
... feel destroyed. I haven't managed to reconstruct my life and I don't wish to do so. I have made a choice. I feel peaceful, my act is positive. More- over, I have always known that I would his suicide was the result of an assessment he ...
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... feel I failed him (weeps). 18 gilbert langevin (poet): The day after Hubert died a guy came to deliver us a BBQ chicken. This guy was maybe sixty years old. He said to us: “Did you hear the big news? Hubert Aquin, Québec's greatest ...
... feel I failed him (weeps). 18 gilbert langevin (poet): The day after Hubert died a guy came to deliver us a BBQ chicken. This guy was maybe sixty years old. He said to us: “Did you hear the big news? Hubert Aquin, Québec's greatest ...
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... feel like doing it any longer. I feel like ending it all. Mind you, each time he finished a novel he was at a loss for days on end, and he would have the feeling that he would never write another one. But after Neige noire it was ...
... feel like doing it any longer. I feel like ending it all. Mind you, each time he finished a novel he was at a loss for days on end, and he would have the feeling that he would never write another one. But after Neige noire it was ...
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... feeling well, that he was attracted by heights, that he was having a hard time, but when he said that it was a great ... feel infinitely guilty towards you and Emmanuel anyway. sheppard: Do you remember exactly what day in September he ...
... feeling well, that he was attracted by heights, that he was having a hard time, but when he said that it was a great ... feel infinitely guilty towards you and Emmanuel anyway. sheppard: Do you remember exactly what day in September he ...
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... feel it necessary to settle Emmanuel in a country capable of instilling in him a solid and coherent national identity (the United States, France). There, that is what I wished to say to you. Excuse my abrupt formulation. A. After ...
... feel it necessary to settle Emmanuel in a country capable of instilling in him a solid and coherent national identity (the United States, France). There, that is what I wished to say to you. Excuse my abrupt formulation. A. After ...
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