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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... let out of school pretty soon and that was a real concern of mine. – How long did you stay there? – I must have spent ah ... five seconds. And then I went up to the convent. 11 I walked quickly. And the nuns don't like dogs.
... let out of school pretty soon and that was a real concern of mine. – How long did you stay there? – I must have spent ah ... five seconds. And then I went up to the convent. 11 I walked quickly. And the nuns don't like dogs.
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... stays of execution. I am a genius of miracles, an incredible inventor of myself. I live on. I always survive. It's extraordinary. And a little further on, while declaimAccording to respected critics, in less than fifteen years – he ...
... stays of execution. I am a genius of miracles, an incredible inventor of myself. I live on. I always survive. It's extraordinary. And a little further on, while declaimAccording to respected critics, in less than fifteen years – he ...
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... staying in this big hotel. Look at it. It looks like it's going to fall down ... HA HA PAPA From Switzerland we flew on to Brussels and there Hubert began to get very tired: one day he could not even remember that the night before we ...
... staying in this big hotel. Look at it. It looks like it's going to fall down ... HA HA PAPA From Switzerland we flew on to Brussels and there Hubert began to get very tired: one day he could not even remember that the night before we ...
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... stayed at the Château de la Bonne Entente (Mansion of Good Understanding), and during that trip I was still feeling the shock of the announcement. sheppard: At that time did you think he might not live much past his birthday? andrée ...
... stayed at the Château de la Bonne Entente (Mansion of Good Understanding), and during that trip I was still feeling the shock of the announcement. sheppard: At that time did you think he might not live much past his birthday? andrée ...
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... stayed in Europe how long? andrée: A little more than three weeks. He arrived in Rome February 3 and he returned to Montréal on February 26. The. Return. from. Europe. sheppard: What happened after he returned from Europe? andrée: After he ...
... stayed in Europe how long? andrée: A little more than three weeks. He arrived in Rome February 3 and he returned to Montréal on February 26. The. Return. from. Europe. sheppard: What happened after he returned from Europe? andrée: After he ...
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