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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... remember]. The fleur-de-lis – a.k.a. Madonna lily – was the symbol of France from the reign of Louis VII (1137–1180) until the French Revolution of 1789, which put paid to the Bourbon monarchy. The white cross on a blue field was once ...
... remember]. The fleur-de-lis – a.k.a. Madonna lily – was the symbol of France from the reign of Louis VII (1137–1180) until the French Revolution of 1789, which put paid to the Bourbon monarchy. The white cross on a blue field was once ...
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... remember that the night before we had been to a reception given in his honour at the offices of the Québec government in Brussels. On May 14 we said goodbye at Brussels airport. I had to go back to Montréal and Hubert took the plane for ...
... remember that the night before we had been to a reception given in his honour at the offices of the Québec government in Brussels. On May 14 we said goodbye at Brussels airport. I had to go back to Montréal and Hubert took the plane for ...
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... remember exactly what day in September he made this announcement? andrée: It's strange. I make a note of most things but I did not make a note about that. No doubt I wanted to forget it by not keeping a record of it. I know that it was ...
... remember exactly what day in September he made this announcement? andrée: It's strange. I make a note of most things but I did not make a note about that. No doubt I wanted to forget it by not keeping a record of it. I know that it was ...
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... remember, Papa said something to you which made you laugh a lot – when we turned out the lights. You made a rude sound and he said to you – you remember, you repeated it to me: – Well how about that big pig, he's blowing himself up ...
... remember, Papa said something to you which made you laugh a lot – when we turned out the lights. You made a rude sound and he said to you – you remember, you repeated it to me: – Well how about that big pig, he's blowing himself up ...
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... remember what was on. I do recall that at eleven o'clock on Channel 2, in the Film Society Series, there was a German film about a male homosexual who becomes a prostitute. The film was Fox and His Friends (1974), directed by Rainer ...
... remember what was on. I do recall that at eleven o'clock on Channel 2, in the Film Society Series, there was a German film about a male homosexual who becomes a prostitute. The film was Fox and His Friends (1974), directed by Rainer ...
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