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	Hubert Aquin Biography and Summary
		Hubert Aquin, very probably the greatest novelist of modern Quebec, was born and grew up in Montreal.
		Hubert Aquin(24 October 1929 – 15 March 1977) was a Canadian novelist, political activist, essayist, filmmaker and editor.
		Born in Montreal, Quebec, Aquin graduated from the Université de Montréal in 1951.
	www.bookrags.com /Hubert_Aquin (310 words)

	Hubert Aquin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hubert Aquin (born at Montreal, Quebec, Canada on October 24, 1929; died in Montreal on March 15, 1977) was a novelist, political activist, essayist, filmmaker and editor.
		Aquin graduated from the Université de Montréal in 1951.
		Aquin's novel Next Episode (the English translation of Prochain épisode by Sheila Fischman), was chosen for Year 2003 edition of CBC Radio's Canada Reads competition, where it was championed by journalist Denise Bombardier.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hubert_Aquin (231 words)

	CBC Radio \| Canada Reads \| Next Season: Reader's Guide
		Like his narrator, Hubert Aquin fought for the independence of Quebec and was arrested for carrying a firearm and driving a stolen vehicle.
		Hubert Aquin was strongly influenced by some writers of decolonisation especially Albert Memmi and Frantz Fanon.
		Hubert Aquin was born in Montreal in 1929.
	www.cbc.ca /canadareads/cr_2003/readersguide.html (1004 words)

	Hubert Aquin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Thomas von Aquin beim Philosophenlexiken Eine kurze Übersicht über die Lehre.
		Thomas von Aquin beim Aphorismen-Archiv Eine Kurzbiographie sowie eine kleine Zitate-Sammlung.
		Lehre des Thomas von Aquin Eine Biographie sowie ein umfassender Überblick über Lehre des Philosophen mit Auszügen aus seinen Werken.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Hubert_Aquin.html (227 words)

	Books at Book Clubs \| Next Episode by Hubert Aquin
		Hubert Aquin was born in Montreal, Quebec, in 1929.
		Aquin worked as a radio and television producer with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Public Affairs division in Montreal and won many awards for his work as a director with the National Film Board.
		Hubert Aquin died in Montreal, Quebec, in 1977.
	www.bookclubs.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0771034717 (197 words)

	Aquin, Hubert
		Aquin, Hubert, novelist (b at Montréal 24 Oct 1929; d there 15 Mar 1977).
		Aquin received a licentiate in philosophy from Université de Montréal in 1951.
		But Aquin had always claimed he became a revolutionary because as a Québécois he was denied the opportunity of being a banker, and his time at Éditions La Presse was marked by conflict over money he wanted to invest in "unprofitable" Québec literary ventures.
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0000262 (563 words)

	Robert Fulford's column about HA! A Self-Murder Mystery and the suicide of Hubert Aquin
		concerns the death of Hubert Aquin (1929-1977), the avant-garde novelist, whose suicide was a trauma for intellectual Quebec.
		Aquin, who was drunk on revolution when not drunk on alcohol, was close to that world's centre.
		Hubert let Andrée know when he was about to shoot himself, and after it happened she said she understood.
	www.robertfulford.com /HubertAquin.html (985 words)

	<< Journals Division of UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS >> (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Hubert Aquin admitted his own childhood fascination with the IXE-13 series, and he even starred in a film parody by Jacques Godbout produced by the National Film Board, scenes from which are reproduced in Godbout's documentary on Aquin, Deux épisodes dans la vie d'Hubert Aquin.
		Aquin's attraction to IXE-13 is worthy of note, because the intrepid Canadian spy, with his legendary physical and verbal agility, accompanied by a devoted fiancée who is also his clever associate, bears little resemblance to the confused and powerless spies who follow their solitary path in Aquin's own work.
		Aquin is clearly playing with words, symbols, and structures, but his play is not without meaning and purpose, as he uses the mechanisms of the spy novel to explore the failure of revolutionary action in a particular historical context.
	www.utpjournals.com /jour.ihtml?lp=product/utq/634/634_green.htm (5368 words)

	Hubert Aquin - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He was an executive member of the first independentist political party, the Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale (1960–69.
		Hubert Aquin, romancier (Vie des lettres québécoises ; 16)
		Hubert Aquin et le Québec (Collection Frères chasseurs)
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /hubert_aquin.htm (220 words)

	HA! : Montreal Gazette: Review
		Hubert Aquin is hardly a familiar name these days, even among the literary set, though he (or his ghost) did stage a brief comeback last summer when his baffling novel Next Episode was chosen as CBC's "Canada Reads" winner.
		The lines between life and art were more blurred than usual in Aquin's case, for he was a man who used the politics of the day to express his personal disturbances, a man who had been contemplating suicide, or so we learn in this book, since the day he was born.
		Aquin felt betrayed by his friends and employer, rejected by his sons from a previous marriage, and at the end of his creative powers.
	www.mqup.mcgill.ca /extra.php?id=98 (911 words)

	CONTEXT: Issue No. 17: Commentaries: Difficulty and Revolution by Douglas Glover
		For Aquin, difficulty resides in substituting the proliferating unsystematic nonstructures of “institutional delirium” for the conventional structures of the well-made novel.
		Aquin’s style is fast and energetic, not because things happen quickly (because, in fact, hardly anything happens), but because new connections are made simultaneously, much as they are in a poem, by the process of semantic dislocation.
		Aquin’s novels are semiological systems that soar above the earth without actually being connected to it—like a hot air balloon without anchors; Aquin consistently severs the safety lines of plot, character, and meaning—defying the expectations of logic and the logic of expectation and commercial rules of thumb.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /context/no17/glover.html (4987 words)

	rockintheblues-book-reviews-ha-gordonsheppard
		Hubert Aquin (HA) was a mentally, and apparently physically, tormented man from Montréal, an author, professor, poster boy for Québec independence and a typical victim of Roman Catholic brainwashing - in other words, a wild colonial boy.
		Aquin and even, at one point, attempted to collaborate with him on a film with a controversial religious theme.
		It is mentioned by two different interviewees that Hubert contended he was raped “by a man in the street” at five or six years of age.
	www.geocities.com /ddrocker/rockintheblues-book-reviews-ha-gordonsheppard.html (635 words)

	ReadLiterature.Com Canadian Literature - Book Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Aquin's rich prose and narrative prowess impressed the critics when this book came out in 1965, however, it seems that Aquin has been neglected by the public and Québec itself as if his troubling lucidity was hurting us too much.
		Aquin's writting is definitely neobaroque and somewhat influenced by one of his favorite authors: James Joyce.
		Hubert Aquin is definitely one of Québec's literary best and, even though it might hurt some of us, his writtings are still relevant today.
	www.readliterature.com /R_nextepisode.htm (257 words)

	Books in Canada
		Hubert Aquin saw life as a Formula One course where a well-chosen wall—not the checkered flag—was the goal.
		Later, as an adult, Hubert would also drink heavily, and take pills; according to a friend, Aquin "lived like an alchemist, treating his body like a laboratory." Aquin seemed always to need sensory stimulation-something had to be happening to him, or he had to make something happen: on paper or in life.
		Perhaps Aquin, consciously or not, chose Andrée because he knew she would aid him in his ultimate goal, a suicide he himself designed, a final work of art—one that; like all great works, would be non pareil; or; perhaps Andrée was incidental to Aquin's animus.
	www.gordonsheppard.com /HA/books.html (987 words)

	L'Action nationale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Il suffit de lire quelques passages de l’uvre d’Hubert Aquin pour se rendre compte de l’héritage intellectuel que cet écrivain nous a légué : une pensée qui nous éclaire de façon claire et parfois brutale sur notre actualité sociale et politique.
		Et pourtant, vingt-cinq ans après sa mort, Hubert Aquin s’enlève la vie le 17 mars 1977, tant les milieux intellectuel que politique font preuve d’une amnésie généralisée sur cet écrivain qui a tenté de penser l’avenir de sa communauté.
		Parallèlement, Hubert Aquin mène une carrière en enseignement, ce qui l’amène à uvrer au Collège Ste-Marie, à l’Université du Québec à Montréal et à l’Université de Buffalo comme professeur invité.
	www.action-nationale.qc.ca /03-4/larouche-aquin.html (1643 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Ha!: A Self-Murder Mystery - Gordon Sheppard - Hardcover
		Aquin was at the heart of Quebec public life throughout the '60s and '70s, a time when culture and politics were married.
		The image of Aquin that we are left with is complex: at once an emasculated man unable to conquer his own demons, a failed revolutionary, unemployed, alcoholic and a prescription drug abuser.
		Aquin was one of those writers whose life and work could be separated only with a scalpel, and, therefore, a great original.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=zV19ME0A2w&isbn=0773523456&itm=1 (5782 words)

	Hubert Aquin -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Aquin graduated from the (Click link for more info and facts about University of Montreal) University of Montreal in 1951.
		From 1951 to 1954 he studied at the Institut d'études politiques in (The capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce) Paris, and on his return to Montreal worked for (Click link for more info and facts about Radio-Canada) Radio-Canada from 1955 until 1959.
		From 1960 to 1968 Aquin was active he in the movement for (The largest province of Canada; a French colony from 1663 to 1759 when it was lost to the British) Quebec (Freedom from control or influence of another or others) independence.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hu/hubert_aquin.htm (237 words)

	Amazon.ca: Next Episode: Books: Hubert Aquin,Jean-Louis Major,Sheila Fischman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		His life was short and intense: between the late '50s and his suicide in 1977 he wore the hats of novelist, essayist, terrorist agitator, politician, prisoner, film producer, literary editor, and stockbroker.
		Written while Aquin was being held at a Montreal psychiatric hospital, pending trial for the possession of a stolen automobile and an automatic firearm, Next Episode is narrated by a young revolutionary, an Aquin double who's also imprisoned in a psychiatric institution.
		Aquin's French is too rich and lyrical to translate well; the ever-capable Sheila Fischman has produced a workable version of the text, but the florid, romantic prose of Next Episode will always sound forced in English.
	www.amazon.ca /Next-Episode-Hubert-Aquin/dp/0771034717 (641 words)

	CBC Radio \| Canada Reads \| The Five Books
		For a brief time, Hubert Aquin was one of Quebec’s most important public intellectuals and political agitators for independence.
		Aquin was acquitted in 1965, the same year Next Episode was published.
		Aquin’s writings include dozens of political articles and essays, television plays and film scripts, and three novels he published after Next Episode; Trou de mémoire (1968), L’antiphonaire (1969) and Neige noire (1974).
	www.cbc.ca /canadareads/cr_2003/top5.html (1337 words)

	Sheppard, Gordon: HA! A Self Murder Mystery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Each chapter is preceded by an extensive citation from one of Aquin's four novels, followed by stage direction notes for music, sound effects, and mood, and comprised of situated testimony written as dialogue for a film script.
		Aquin's much publicized dismissal from a newspaper job, which he had counted on for a prominent editorial opportunity; 3.
		Many passages entail his allusions to classic literature or his instructions for Aquin's mourners in the possible causes for his death; he also records their surprise and praise for his insights.
	endeavor.med.nyu.edu /lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/sheppard12203-des-.html (1161 words)

	spiritbookword: Requiem for a Suicidal Genius (Gordon Sheppard & HA!) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		MM, Aquin's lover, is asked why she was drawn to Aquin and the nature of her relationship with him.
		Aquin claims he was raped as a child.
		Sheppard writes: "Now, certain artists who, like Hubert, are in love with love, don't necessarily have to have a new relationship in order to renew themselves, but they may have a psychological need to feel that it's possible for them to have such a relationship.
	www.spiritbookword.net /book/requiem_for_a_s.shtml (2564 words)

	Aquin Hubert
		Hubert Aquin est né à Montréal, pas très loin du Parc Lafontaine, d’une famille modeste.
		Hubert Aquin était un artiste qui a vécu tragiquement son rôle dans une société dont l’histoire politique et économique est aussi une tragédie, celle de l’impuissance (n’oublions pas que nous sommes dans les années 50 et 60...).
		Hubert Aquin est un auteur dont l’oeuvre difficile restera à cause de son art et de sa pertinence.
	felix.cyberscol.qc.ca /LQ/auteurA/aquin_hu/aquin_h.html (860 words)

	Ha! A Self-murder Mystery, Gordon Sheppard
		Sheppard is an award-winning filmmaker whose friendship with Aquin came to an end on March 15, 1977, when the writer committed suicide at 48 on the grounds of Villa Maria convent school in Montreal.
		Sheppard reveals how troubled he was by Aquin's "self-murder," and how he recorded a conversation soon after the funeral with Andrée Yanacopoulo, Aquin's wife and the mother of Emmanuel, their son.
		Aquin may never have recovered from his abrupt dismissal as literary director of Éditions de la Presse.
	www.aelaq.org /mrb/article.php?issue=11&article=278&cat=4 (681 words)

	Books
		Aquin’s announcement came on a Sunday evening in March 1977 after he and Andree and their nine year-old son Emmanuel had spent a weekend in the Laurentians.
		HUBERT AQUIN: I was raised in a male society, made for men.
		Poor Madame Aquin, obviously she was tired and she would come in the house at high speed and go upstairs to his office and they were together there and I wouldn't put my nose where it had no place being.
	www.gordonsheppard.com /speeches/cpa.html (6361 words)

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		Né à Montréal en 1929, Hubert Aquin a été romancier, scénariste, journaliste, directeur de la revue Liberté, de 1961 à 1971, et directeur littéraire aux Éditions La Presse au milieu des années 1970.
		Hubert Aquin a mis fin à ses jours le 15 mars 1977.
		Dans ce volume d'essais bigarrés, Hubert Aquin brosse le portrait le plus juste de son esthétique littéraire, dominée par le baroque et l'outrance.
	livres-bq.com /Livres.asp?ID=5 (485 words)

	Studies in Canadian Literature
		Aquin's novel ends with tentative closure, with reference to the next episode which cannot yet be written; Blais's novel ends with an ellipsis following the reiteration of the death of its hero.
		In Aquin it is an explicitly political, revolutionary future for Quebec; in Blais it is, on the surface, a more local future of a family, of an individual, and of, as I have suggested, an oppositional practice of writing which counters authority.
		Implicitly, the different reception of Blais and Aquin suggests in part that the personal is not considered to be political (the reverse is of course a commonplace of the women's movement and of feminist criticism more specifically).
	www.lib.unb.ca /Texts/SCL/bin/get.cgi?directory=vol19_2/&filename=Schlick.htm (4320 words)

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