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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... letter to Emmanuel, but then he tore it up. sheppard: And why didn't he commit suicide at that time? andrée: Because there was a kind of miracle in January 1975 when Roger Lemelin, then president of the La Presse newspaper group ...
... letter to Emmanuel, but then he tore it up. sheppard: And why didn't he commit suicide at that time? andrée: Because there was a kind of miracle in January 1975 when Roger Lemelin, then president of the La Presse newspaper group ...
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... letter to Roger Lemelin expressing his disgust – and two days later he was fired. Hubert countered by immediately filing suit against La Presse for $45,000 in damages. Two weeks after that, Hubert was hired as editor-in-chief of the ...
... letter to Roger Lemelin expressing his disgust – and two days later he was fired. Hubert countered by immediately filing suit against La Presse for $45,000 in damages. Two weeks after that, Hubert was hired as editor-in-chief of the ...
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... letter in which I tried to convince him not to commit suicide. Since I did not want him to read it in front of me, I hid the letter in the car – behind a suit in a plastic travelling bag which.
... letter in which I tried to convince him not to commit suicide. Since I did not want him to read it in front of me, I hid the letter in the car – behind a suit in a plastic travelling bag which.
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... letter Hubert called me right away from the gas station and said in a rather grave tone: – I won't say any more to you than this: I've just read your letter. A week later he spoke to me again about it: – I'd given myself a deadline of ...
... letter Hubert called me right away from the gas station and said in a rather grave tone: – I won't say any more to you than this: I've just read your letter. A week later he spoke to me again about it: – I'd given myself a deadline of ...
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... letter from him which made it clear that he had decided to kill himself: 43 Along with this letter he sent me his appointment. [written in red ink] March 29 1971 1:00 p.m. Too much, it's all too much. You yourself will acknowledge that ...
... letter from him which made it clear that he had decided to kill himself: 43 Along with this letter he sent me his appointment. [written in red ink] March 29 1971 1:00 p.m. Too much, it's all too much. You yourself will acknowledge that ...
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