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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... there's death, there's hope. – Giuseppe di Lampedusa ©© O-zali Films Inc. 2003 All rights reserved (O-zali means.
... there's death, there's hope. – Giuseppe di Lampedusa ©© O-zali Films Inc. 2003 All rights reserved (O-zali means.
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A Self-Murder Mystery Gordon Sheppard. Protestants. There are also about 60,000 Eastern Orthodox Christians, 110,000 ... there's the inspirational Latin motto, “Concordia Salus”, which means “Salvation through harmony”, sometimes more ...
A Self-Murder Mystery Gordon Sheppard. Protestants. There are also about 60,000 Eastern Orthodox Christians, 110,000 ... there's the inspirational Latin motto, “Concordia Salus”, which means “Salvation through harmony”, sometimes more ...
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... there cannot be an “old” quarter of the city. Moreover, there's no “new” part of the city. Example: Liège. Decrepitude has homogenized everything there. The ancient is no longer valued; it finds itself, in a way, undifferentiated. Even ...
... there cannot be an “old” quarter of the city. Moreover, there's no “new” part of the city. Example: Liège. Decrepitude has homogenized everything there. The ancient is no longer valued; it finds itself, in a way, undifferentiated. Even ...
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... There isn't a soul to be seen on or near the asphalt laneway that curves from the main building of the Villa Maria ... there's a small gate in the fence for pedestrians to come and go. It is just inside this gate, on the laneway, that ...
... There isn't a soul to be seen on or near the asphalt laneway that curves from the main building of the Villa Maria ... there's a small gate in the fence for pedestrians to come and go. It is just inside this gate, on the laneway, that ...
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... there's something wrong here.” So I took a closer look at his feet, and my eyes moved up and – I froze, because I ... There was brain tissue on the trunk of the car, and his head was so ... deformed. I have no picture of his face at all ...
... there's something wrong here.” So I took a closer look at his feet, and my eyes moved up and – I froze, because I ... There was brain tissue on the trunk of the car, and his head was so ... deformed. I have no picture of his face at all ...
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