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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... idea to say, “Okay, it's over.” It goes back a long time – in fact to when he had finished Neige noire – in the spring of 1974. He felt depressed at that point, he kept saying to me, “Neige noire is my last book,” and I kept responding ...
... idea to say, “Okay, it's over.” It goes back a long time – in fact to when he had finished Neige noire – in the spring of 1974. He felt depressed at that point, he kept saying to me, “Neige noire is my last book,” and I kept responding ...
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... idea of independence.Aweek later, towards the 22nd or 23rd of November, Hubert said to me: – It's a good thing the Liberals or the Union Nationale didn't win the elections because if they had, that very night I would have killed myself ...
... idea of independence.Aweek later, towards the 22nd or 23rd of November, Hubert said to me: – It's a good thing the Liberals or the Union Nationale didn't win the elections because if they had, that very night I would have killed myself ...
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... idea that the pact also apply to you? andrée: I don't recall. But for me that went without saying: we made a pact and it concerned both of us. I perhaps have not thought of killing myself, but I threatened sometimes to leave – which was ...
... idea that the pact also apply to you? andrée: I don't recall. But for me that went without saying: we made a pact and it concerned both of us. I perhaps have not thought of killing myself, but I threatened sometimes to leave – which was ...
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... idea of suicide was present in him. He told me that one time, when he was still quite young, he came home expecting to find his mother there but no one came to answer the door. He was sure his mother had committed suicide. He got so ...
... idea of suicide was present in him. He told me that one time, when he was still quite young, he came home expecting to find his mother there but no one came to answer the door. He was sure his mother had committed suicide. He got so ...
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... idea is to determine to what extent suicide can reveal certain psycho-socio-cultural peculiarities of the French-Canadian personality. Précis of thesis proposal by Andrée Yanacopoulo 1963 56 medical It is certainly not for nothing that I.
... idea is to determine to what extent suicide can reveal certain psycho-socio-cultural peculiarities of the French-Canadian personality. Précis of thesis proposal by Andrée Yanacopoulo 1963 56 medical It is certainly not for nothing that I.
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