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{{Short description|Quebec novelist and intellectual (1929–1977)}}
'''Hubert Aquin''' (born [[24 October]] [[1929]], in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], [[Canada]]–[[15 March]] [[1977]]) was a [[novelist]], [[political activist]], [[essayist]], [[filmmaker]] and [[editing|editor]].
{{other uses|Aquin (disambiguation)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Hubert Aquin
| image = Hubert Aquin 1976.png
| alt = Hubert Aquin during an interview for the magazine ''Québec français'' in October 1976.
| caption = Hubert Aquin during an interview for the magazine ''Québec français'' in October 1976.
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1929|10|24|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Montreal]], Quebec
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1977|02|15|1929|10|24|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Montreal]], Quebec
| occupation = {{csl|Novelist|Essayist}}
| notableworks = {{Plainlist|
* ''[[La fatigue culturelle du Canada français]]'' (1962)
* ''[[Next Episode]]'' (1965)
*''Trou de mémoire'' (1968)
*''L'Antiphonaire'' (1969)
*''Point de fuite'' (1971)
*''Neige noire'' (1974)}}
| awards = [[Governor General's Awards]] (not accepted)<br>[[Prix David|Prix de la province de Québec]]<br>[[Prix Athanase-David]]
| spouse = Thérèse Larouche (1955-1975)
| partner = [[Andrée Yanacopoulo]] (1963-1977)
| children = Philippe, Stéphane, [[Emmanuel Aquin|Emmanuel]]
| relatives = [[François Aquin]] (cousin)
}}


'''Hubert Aquin''' (24 October 1929 – 15 March 1977) was a [[Quebec]] [[writer]], [[filmmaker]] and [[intellectual]]. He is particularly known for his novel ''[[Next Episode]]''. He is also an important figure in the history of the [[Quebec Sovereignty Movement|Quebec independence movement]], to which he contributed both as an activist and as an [[essay]]ist. Tempted by suicide for a great part of his existence, he ended his life in 1977 in the gardens of [[Villa Maria (school)|Villa Maria College]].
Aquin graduated from the [[Université de Montréal]] in 1951. From 1951 to 1954, he studied at the [[Institut d'études politiques]] in [[Paris]]. On his return to Montreal worked for [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|Radio-Canada]] from 1955 until 1959.


== Biography ==
From 1960 to 1968, Aquin was active in the movement for Quebec [[independence]]. He was an executive member of the first independentist political party, the [[Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale]] (1960–1969). In 1964, he announced that he was going "underground" to work for independence through [[terrorism]]; he was arrested shortly thereafter and detained for four months in a [[psychiatric hospital]]. It was there that he wrote his first novel, ''[[Prochain épisode]]'' (1965), the story of an imprisoned revolutionary. In December 1964, he was acquitted of illegal possession of a firearm.
=== Genealogy ===
Hubert Aquin was born on 24 October 1929, at 4037 St-André Street, in [[Montreal]]. His family is mainly of [[French Canadian]] origin, but also of [[Irish people|Irish]] origin through his great-grandmother, Helen McCardon.<ref name=Massoutre24>{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|p=24|id=Massoutre}}</ref> He is the son of a Montreal sporting goods merchant.<ref name="Film_Deux_episodes"/> He had three sons: Philippe and Stéphane, with his wife Thérèse Larouche, and [[Emmanuel Aquin|Emmanuel]] with [[Andrée Yanacopoulo]]. [[François Aquin]], his cousin, was elected as a [[Liberal Party of Quebec]] [[Member of the Legislative Assembly|MLA]] in [[1966 in Canada|1966]], before leaving the party in [[1967 in Canada|1967]] and becoming an independent MLA, as he disagreed with the disapproval of his party leader [[Jean Lesage]] regarding [[De Gaulle]]'s ''[[Vive le Québec libre!]]'' speech. Hubert Aquin is also the brother of engineer Richard Aquin with whom he tried to organize an auto racing Grand Prix in Montreal in the 1960s.<ref>{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|p=138|id=Massoutre}}</ref>


=== Studies ===
Regarded as a classic of Canadian literature, Aquin's novel ''Next Episode'' (the [[English language|English]] translation of ''Prochain épisode'' by [[Sheila Fischman]]), was chosen for the 2003 edition of [[CBC Radio]]'s ''[[Canada Reads]]'' competition, where it was championed by [[journalist]] [[Denise Bombardier]]. It was the winning title. An earlier English translation by Penny Williams, keeping the [[French language|French]] title, was published in 1967.
Aquin entered the [[Collège Sainte-Marie de Montréal|Collège Sainte-Marie]], a [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] school, in [[1946 in Canada|September 1946]] and left in [[1948 in Canada|June 1948]].<ref>{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|pp=31, 37|id=Massoutre}}</ref> He obtained remarkable results there, according to Guylaine Massoutre. It was there that he met [[Louis-Georges Carrier]], who would be a great friend of Aquin all his life. He also did theatre there, which helped him to overcome his great shyness as a child.<ref>{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|p=37|id=Massoutre}}</ref> He enrolled in the [[philosophy]] faculty of [[Université de Montréal]] in September [[1948 in Canada|1948]], and received a degree in [[1951 in Canada|1951]], at the age of 21. During his time at Université de Montréal, he directed the student newspaper ''[[Le Quartier latin]]''. He was then offered a job as a teacher at the university, but he turned it down, preferring to prepare for a career in journalism.<ref>{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|p=58|id=Massoutre}}</ref> He then went to study at the [[Institut d'études politiques de Paris]] from 1951 to [[1954 in Canada|1954]]. According to Aquin, every trip to Europe is a moment of "emotional shock" for him,<ref name=Massoutre133>{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|p=133|id=Massoutre}}</ref> a theme that would later recur in his work.


=== Professional life ===
The self-destructive thoughts of the novel's narrator foreshadow Aquin's own death: On [[15 March]] [[1977]], Aquin shot himself in the head. He left a suicide note claiming his death was a free and positive choice, stating, "I have lived intensely, and now it is over." A fuller understanding of Aquin's intense life can be gained from viewing [[Jacques Godbout]]'s biographical documentary, ''Deux épisodes dans la vie d'Hubert Aquin'' (1979) and ''HA!: A Self-Murder Mystery'' (2003), an experiment in biography by Aquin's friend [[Gordon Sheppard]].
[[File:Albert_Memmi_par_Claude_Truong-Ngoc_décembre_1982.jpg|thumbnail|As part of his professional activities, Aquin formed a friendship with [[Albert Memmi]], a Tunisian decolonization intellectual.]]
Upon his return to Montreal in 1954, he was hired as a director and scriptwriter for [[Société Radio-Canada|Radio-Canada]] (from 1954 to [[1959 in Canada|1959]]). Then, from 1959 to [[1963 in Canada|1963]], he was a director, producer and screenwriter at the [[National Film Board]] (NFB)<ref name="Film_Deux_episodes"/>{{,}}.<ref>{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|p=107|id=Massoutre}}</ref> For the NFB, he notably worked on the film ''À l'heure de la décolonisation'', directed by Monique Fortier, which led Aquin to interview in 1962 figures of [[decolonization]] such as [[Albert Memmi]] (with whom he formed a friendship),<ref>{{harvsp|Caccia|2004}}</ref> [[Messali Hadj]], [[Octave Mannoni]] and [[Olympe Bhêly-Quenum]].<ref name=Massoutre133/> Decolonization would be a major influence on his political writings. Then, during the same stay in Europe, he was received for three days by [[Georges Simenon]],<ref>{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|p=134|id=Massoutre}}</ref> of whom he was a great reader.<ref>{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|pp=328–329|id=Massoutre}}</ref> Aquin then made a film on Simenon, which never saw the light of day.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}


Aquin worked at the [[Montreal Stock Exchange]] from 1960 to 1964.<ref name="Smart" /> In 1966, based on an already written script, Aquin wrote the script for the film ''Faux bond'', in which he eventually played the main role, after some hesitation. The images from the film will be used to illustrate several passages of the NFB documentary ''Deux épisodes dans la vie d'Hubert Aquin'' by [[Jacques Godbout]].<ref>{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|pp=166–167|id=Massoutre}}</ref> In 1967, he began teaching literature at [[Collège Sainte-Marie]].<ref>{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|p=183|id=Massoutre}}</ref> In 1969, he was hired by the [[Université du Québec à Montréal]] (UQAM),<ref>{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|p=203|id=Massoutre}}</ref> but he resigned in 1970, saying he disagreed with the policy of Rector Léo A. Dorais.<ref>{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|p=211|id=Massoutre}}</ref> [[Carleton University]], in [[Ottawa]], hired him in 1974 as a visiting professor,<ref>{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|p=249|id=Massoutre}}</ref> but did not renew his contract.<ref>{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|p=252|id=Massoutre}}</ref>
==Recognition==
The [[Université du Québec à Montréal]] (UQAM) named its main [[humanities]] building in his honour.


In [[1975 in Canada|1975]], Aquin was appointed literary director of Éditions La Presse.<ref>{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|p=256|id=Massoutre}}</ref> He lost his job in August 1976: he was fired following the publication of an open letter denouncing the cultural policies of Éditions La Presse towards Quebec works. He then accused his superior officer, [[Roger Lemelin]], of "colonizing Quebec from the inside".<ref name="Smart" /> In 1976, Aquin returned to UQAM for a teaching position, but only taught there for one month due to a strike.<ref>{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|pp=288–289|id=Massoutre}}</ref> After the victory of the [[Parti Québécois]] in [[1976 Quebec general election|1976]], Aquin hoped to obtain a position within the government, such as Deputy Minister of Cultural Affairs, which did not come to fruition.<ref>{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|pp=292, 298|id=Massoutre}}</ref>
==Bibliography==
*''[[Prochain épisode]]'' (''Next Episode'') &mdash; 1965
*''Trou de mémoire'' (''Blackout'') &mdash; 1968
*''L'Antiphonaire'' (''The Antiphonary'') &mdash; 1969
*''Point de fruite'' &mdash; 1971
*''Neige noire'' (''Hamlet's Twin'') &mdash; 1974
*''Blocs erratiques'' &mdash; 1977
*''[http://www.livres-bq.com/titres.asp?291 L'Invention de la mort] (in French)'' &mdash; written in 1959, published in 1990


=== Personal life ===
==Further reading==
In 1958,<ref name=Massoutre101>{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|p=101|id=Massoutre}}</ref> Aquin discovered car racing, a passion that led him to work towards holding an auto racing Grand Prix on Île Sainte-Hélène.<ref>{{harvsp|SRC|2017|p=107}}</ref> To do this, he founded his own car racing company in 1960, "Le Grand Prix de Montréal Inc.".<ref>{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|p=113|id=Massoutre}}</ref> He also included car racing in a film he made in 1961, ''Le Sport et les Hommes''<ref name=ONF>{{harvsp|Aquin|1961}}</ref> (on which [[Roland Barthes]] collaborated), and the novel ''[[Next Episode]]''. He dreamed of becoming a driver, but considered himself too old to think about it seriously.<ref name=Massoutre101/> A auto racing [[Canadian Grand Prix|Grand Prix in Montreal]] would come to exist from 1978 onward.

It was at Radio-Canada that he met his future wife, Thérèse Larouche, a [[script girl]] for his friend Louis-Georges Carrier.<ref>{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|p=86|id=Massoutre}}</ref> He married her in 1955. In 1963, he met Andrée Yanacopoulo. Born in [[Tunis]] to a half-Sicilian, half-Greek father and a French mother, Yanacopoulo graduated in [[medicine]] and [[sociology]]. She then prepared a thesis on suicide and researched "Depression among French Canadians in Montreal", supervised by [[Guy Rocher]], a sociologist, and [[Camille Laurin]], a [[Psychiatry|psychiatrist]] and future pro-independence minister under [[René Lévesque]]. Yanacopoulo would be Aquin's lover until his death.<ref>{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|p=146|id=Massoutre}}</ref> As for his couple with Thérèse Larouche, they began divorce proceedings in 1966.<ref>{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|pp=170, 172|id=Massoutre}}</ref> The seizures on Aquin's income that followed contributed to his financial troubles.<ref name=Massoutre173>{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|p=173|id=Massoutre}}</ref>

=== Political involvement ===
The [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police]] visited his office in [[1958 in Canada|1958]]. They confiscated works by authors such as [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]], [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]]. A secret trial in Ottawa followed, lasting three or four days. He was questioned about his friendships during his university years, presumably because they were trying to track down communist activists. According to Guylaine Massoutre, these events "precipitated his political awareness and gave rise to his adherence to separatist ideology".<ref>{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|p=100|id=Massoutre}}</ref> Having become an activist for [[Quebec independence]], he was an executive member of the [[Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale]] (RIN) from [[1960 in Canada|1960]] to [[1968 in Canada|1968]].<ref name="Smart">{{harvsp|Smart|2008}}</ref> In 1962, in the magazine ''[[Liberté (Quebec)|Liberté]]'', he published his most famous political text, ''[[La fatigue culturelle du Canada français]]'', responding to an article published in ''[[Cité libre]]'' by [[Pierre Elliott Trudeau]] on the subject of independence: ''La nouvelle trahison des clercs''.

On 19 June 1964, he publicly announced in a letter to the newspapers ''[[Le Devoir]]'' and ''[[Montréal-Matin]]'' that he was going "undercover" and becoming "commander of the Special Organization" with the aim of joining forces with the [[Front de libération du Québec]]<ref name="Film_Deux_episodes" />{{,}}<ref>{{harvsp|Le Devoir|1964|p=3}}</ref>{{,}}.<ref>{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|p=151|id=Massoutre}}</ref> He then took refuge at Louis-Georges Carrier's dwelling, then at Andrée Yanacopoulo's.<ref name="Film_Deux_episodes" /> He meets Dr. Pierre Lefebvre, a psychiatrist and contributor to ''[[Parti pris]]'',<ref name="Film_Deux_episodes" /> who, on 26 June, concludes that immediate treatment is necessary due to a "nervous breakdown". On 29 June, a press release announces that the Special Organization will take action on the following 1 July.<ref name="Massoutre152">{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|p=152|id=Massoutre}}</ref> On 5 July, Aquin is arrested by a plainclothes police officer in a stolen car, in possession of a revolver, in a parking lot behind the [[Saint Joseph's Oratory]].

During his incarceration, he declares that his profession is: "revolutionary". Two charges were brought against him: "theft and posession of stolen goods" and "possession of an offensive weapon for a dangerous purpose".<ref>{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|p=154|id=Massoutre}}</ref> He was then interned for two months in a psychiatric hospital, the Albert-Prévost Institute, in the maximum security wing. It was during this stay that he began writing his novel ''[[Next Episode]]'',<ref name="Film_Deux_episodes"/> which tells the story of an imprisoned revolutionary. The verdict of the trial, deferred, only arrived in 1966. Aquin was then acquitted because of contradictory testimonies given about his mental health. His pistol was however confiscated.<ref>{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|p=169|id=Massoutre}}</ref>

Around May 1966, Aquin left Quebec to live in [[Switzerland]]. There he became interested in the "[[Jura separatism|Jura question]]", and tried to make contact with autonomists in the [[Bernese Jura]].<ref name=Massoutre1971>{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|p=171|id=Massoutre}}</ref> On 29 August, he was questioned by the police of the [[canton of Vaud]] about his membership in the RIN, and his imprisonment. He was then suspected of collusion with the Front de libération jurassien.<ref name=Massoutre173/> On 19 November, on behalf of the Federal Foreigners Police, the canton of Vaud refused him a residence permit that he needed to live in [[Nyon]]. He was told that he had to leave Switzerland before 15 January 1967, under the pretext of "foreign overpopulation".<ref>{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|p=175|id=Massoutre}}</ref> Aquin then moved to Paris, and remained there until 21 March 1967.<ref name=Massoutre1971/> He then returned to Montreal.<ref>{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|p=180|id=Massoutre}}</ref> During 1969, he denounced the decision to dissolve the RIN in favor of René Lévesque's [[Mouvement Souveraineté-Association]], and left the party.<ref name="Smart" />

=== Literary production ===
[[File:Lake_Geneva_from_Chillon_Castle.jpg|thumbnail|The novel ''[[Next Episode]]'' takes place in part near [[Lake Geneva]], in Switzerland.]]

In 1952, Aquin wrote ''Les Rédempteurs,'' a work that remained unpublished until 1959.<ref>{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|p=105|id=Massoutre}}</ref> His texts appeared in various magazines, starting in 1959, including in ''Parti pris'', ''[[L'Actualité|Le Magazine Maclean]]'', ''Voix et images du pays, Écrits du Canada français'' and the literary magazine ''[[Liberté (Quebec)|Liberté]]'', of which he was director from [[1961 in Canada|1961]]<ref name="Fonds_Hubert-Aquin"/> to [[1962 in Canada|1962]].<ref>{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|pp=521–522|id=Massoutre}}</ref> ''[[Next Episode]]'',<ref name="Film_Deux_episodes" /> his best-known novel, was published in 1965 in Montreal, then in 1966 in Paris and translated into English in 1967 in Toronto. In Quebec, it was a success in terms of sales and reviews. The first edition sold out in two and a half months, and, in ''Le Devoir'', the literary critic [[Jean Éthier-Blais]] ended his article about the book by exclaiming: "We do not have to look any further. We have him, our great writer. My God, thank you. »<ref>{{harvsp|Blais|1965|p=|id=Blais}}</ref> In Paris, the critical reception was however more mixed.<ref>{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|pp=173–174|id=Massoutre}}</ref>
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In 1969, he was the first Quebec writer to refuse the [[Governor General's Award|Governor General's Literary Award]] which was awarded to him for his novel ''Trou de mémoire,'' from 1968.<ref name="Smart" /> Also in 1969, he published ''L'Antiphonaire'' which, like his subsequent novels (and unlike the two preceding ones), does not contain any explicit political reference. In 1971, he published ''Point de fuite''. That year, he resigned from the editorial board of ''Liberté'' because, he said, the magazine had ignored the events of the [[October Crisis|October Crisis of 1970]] in order to avoid losing funding from the [[Canada Council for the Arts]].<ref name=Smart/> In 1974, Aquin published ''Neige noire'', a modern version of [[Hamlet]]. At the end of his life, he planned to write ''Obombre'', a work that would remain unfinished. His novel ''L'Invention de la mort'', written around 1959 or 1960, was finally published posthumously in 1991.<ref>{{harvsp|Fournier|1992|p=24}}</ref>

=== Suicide ===
Suicide is an idea that haunts Aquin for many years, and he often evokes it with his friends in the form of jokes.<ref>{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|p=122|id=Massoutre}}</ref> On 29 March 1971, he failed a suicide attempt in a room of the [[Queen Elizabeth Hotel]] by swallowing [[barbiturates]]. He is hospitalized at the [[Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal|Sacré-Cœur Hospital]] until 4 April.<ref>{{harvsp|Massoutre|1992|p=223|id=Massoutre}}</ref> At the hotel, he had registered under the name of his character from his novel ''The Antiphonary'', J. W. Forrestier.<ref>{{harvsp|Martel|Pleau|2006|p=140}}</ref> On 15 March 1977, he attempted suicide again, this time with a firearm in the gardens of the [[Villa Maria (school)|Villa Maria College]] in Montreal, leaving his partner Andrée Yanacopoulo a final note: {{Blockquote|Today, 15 March 1977, I have no more reserves in me. I feel destroyed. I cannot rebuild myself and I do not want to rebuild myself. It is a choice. I feel peaceful, my act is positive, it is the act of a living person. Don't forget that I always knew that I would choose the moment, my life has come to an end. I have lived intensely, it is over.|Hubert Aquin<ref name="Film_Deux_episodes"/>}}

== Reputation in English Canada ==
Regarded in [[English Canada]] as a classic of [[Canadian literature]], Aquin's novel ''Next Episode'' (the English translation of ''Prochain épisode'' by [[Sheila Fischman]]), was chosen for the 2003 edition of [[CBC Radio]]'s ''[[Canada Reads]]'' competition, where it was championed by journalist [[Denise Bombardier]]. It was the winning title, because of the deciding vote of future [[Prime Minister of Canada]] [[Justin Trudeau]], who was also on the panel and voted against the book he was initially defending, ''[[The Colony of Unrequited Dreams]]'' by [[Wayne Johnston (writer)|Wayne Johnston]].<ref>{{harvsp|CBC|2019}}</ref> Justin Trudeau is the son of former Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, who Aquin was responding to with ''La fatigue culturelle du Canada français''. An earlier English translation by Penny Williams, keeping the French title, was published in 1967. A notable work in English about Aquin is ''HA!: A Self-Murder Mystery'' (2003), an experiment in biography by Aquin's friend [[Gordon Sheppard]].

== Tributes and conservation ==
[[File:Pavillon Hubert-Aquin, UQAM, February 23, 2024.jpg|thumbnail|alt=|Le pavillon Hubert Aquin de l'[[Université du Québec à Montréal]].]]
The Hubert-Aquin building at the [[Université du Québec à Montréal]] (built from 1975 to 1979) is named in his (posthumous) honour.

The Hubert Aquin archives are held at the Montreal archives centre of the [[Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec]].<ref name="Fonds_Hubert-Aquin">{{harvsp|BAnQ}}</ref>

In 1979, the Quebec writer and filmmaker [[Jacques Godbout]] made a [[documentary]] entitled ''Two episodes in the life of Hubert Aquin''.<ref name="Film_Deux_episodes">{{harvsp|Godbout|1979}}</ref>

Hubert-Aquin Street was named in his honor in 1984 in Quebec City.

== Honours ==
* 1968 : [[Governor General's Awards]] — Aquin refuses it for political reasons{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}
* 1970 : [[Prix David|Prix de la province de Québec{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}]]
* 1972 : [[Prix Athanase-David]]{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}
* 1974 : [[Prix littéraire de La Presse]]{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}
* 1975 : [[Grand Prix littéraire de la Ville de Montréal]]{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}

== Works ==
=== Books ===
==== Novels ====
* [[1965 in literature|1965]] : ''[[Prochain épisode]]'' (''Next Episode'')
* [[1968 in literature|1968]] : ''Trou de mémoire'' (''Blackout'')
* [[1969 in literature|1969]] : ''L'Antiphonaire'' (''The Antiphonary'')
* [[1971 in literature|1971]] : ''Point de fuite''
* [[1974 in literature|1971]] : ''Neige noire'' (''Hamlet's Twin'')
* [[1959 in literature|1959]] : ''L'Invention de la mort'' (written in 1959, published in 1990)

==== Essays ====
* [[1977 in literature|1977]] : ''Blocs erratiques'' (compilation, including ''[[La fatigue culturelle du Canada français]]'')

=== Films ===
==== Producer ====
* [[1960 in film|1960]] : ''L'Exil en banlieue''
* [[1960 in film|1960]] : ''Les Grandes Religions''
* [[1960 in film|1960]] : ''Quatre enfants du monde''
* [[1961 in film|1961]] : ''Quatre instituteurs''
* [[1961 in film|1961]] : ''Le Temps des amours''
* [[1962 in film|1962]] : ''Jour après jour''
* [[1963 in film|1963]] : ''Trois pays, trois grand-mères''
* [[1963 in film|1963]] : ''Trois pays, trois apprentis''
* [[1963 in film|1963]] : ''Jour de mariage''
* [[1963 in film|1963]] : ''L'Homme vite''

==== Director ====
* [[1959 in film|1959]] : ''Le Sport et les hommes''<ref name=ONF/>
* [[1961 in film|1961]] : ''Le Temps des amours''
* [[1962 in film|1962]] : ''[[September Five at Saint-Henri|À Saint-Henri le cinq septembre]]''
* [[1962 in film|1962]] : ''Simenon voit la France / La France de Simenon'' (working titles of a documentary made by Hubert Aquin with Georges Simenon and his wife, Denyse Ouimet, but never edited)
* [[1963 in film|1963]] : ''À l'heure de la décolonisation'' (documentary conceived and partially directed by Hubert Aquin, but completed by Monique Fortier, to whom the production is attributed)

==== Writer ====
* [[1964 in film|1964]] : ''La Fin des étés''

==== Actor ====
* [[1966 in film|1966]] : ''Faux bond''

== Further reading ==
* Sheppard, Gordon, ''HA! A Self-Murder Mystery''. (2003) Experimental biography centred on the suicide of Aquin and other notable suicides in literary history.
* Sheppard, Gordon, ''HA! A Self-Murder Mystery''. (2003) Experimental biography centred on the suicide of Aquin and other notable suicides in literary history.
* Smart, Patricia, ''Hubert Aquin agent double'', (1973)
* Smart, Patricia, ''Hubert Aquin agent double'', (1973).
* Legris, Renée, "Hubert Aquin et la radio. Une quête d'écriture (1954–1977)", Médiaspaul, (2004).
* Palumbo, Filippo, ''Hubert Aquin et la Gnose'', PhD, Universite de Montreal (Canada), 2011, 349 pp., AAT NR74925; https://papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca/jspui/bitstream/1866/4817/2/Palumbo_Filippo_2010_these.pdf.

== Notes and references ==
{{reflist}}

== See also ==
* [[Canadian Grand Prix]]

== Bibliography ==
* {{cite news |author =Jacques Allard|date=10 March 2007|work =[[Le Devoir]]|title =Le jour où Hubert Aquin s'en alla|url =https://www.ledevoir.com/lire/134272/30e-anniversaire-de-la-mort-d-hubert-aquin-le-jour-ou-hubert-aquin-s-en-alla}}
* {{cite book|author1=Hubert Aquin |date=1992 |location=Montréal |publisher=Bibliothèque québécoise |title=Journal 1948-1971}}<!-- auto-translated from French by Module:CS1 translator -->
* {{cite web|access-date=7 January 2021 |first=Hubert |last=Aquin |date=1961 |title=Le sport et les hommes |url=https://www.onf.ca/film/sport_et_les_hommes/ |website=onf.ca}}<!-- auto-translated from French by Module:CS1 translator -->
* {{cite web|access-date=9 January 2021 |ref={{SfnRef|BAnQ}} |title=Fonds Hubert Aquin (MSS145) |url=http://pistard.banq.qc.ca/unite_chercheurs/description_fonds?p_anqsid=201306181131451100&p_centre=06M&p_classe=MSS&p_fonds=145&p_numunide=882471 |website=[[Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec]]}}<!-- auto-translated from French by Module:CS1 translator -->
* {{cite news |first=Jean-Éthier | last = Blais|date=13 November 1965|work =Le Devoir|title =Prochain épisode, d'Hubert Aquin|url =https://www.ledevoir.com/histoire/90ans/90_aquin.htm}}
* {{cite news|title=20 facts you might not know about Canada Reads |work =Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |date=22 March 2019 |url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads/20-facts-you-might-not-know-about-canada-reads-1.5066796 | ref = {{SfnRef|CBC|2019}} }}
* {{cite news |title=Entretien avec Albert Memmi - L'homme est un être dominant et dépendant |work=Le Devoir |date=29 May 2004 |first=Fulvio |last = Caccia |url=https://www.ledevoir.com/lire/55545/entretien-avec-albert-memmi-l-homme-est-un-etre-dominant-et-dependant }}
* {{cite news|title=Hubert Aquin quitte le RIN et choisit l'action clandestine |work =Le Devoir |date=19 June 1964 |url=https://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/2779172 |pages=3|ref = {{SfnRef|Le Devoir|1964}} }}
* {{cite journal|first=Danielle |last=Fournier|title=L’invention de la mort|journal=Québec français|number=84|date=Winter 1992|url=https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/qf/1992-n84-qf1227657/45181ac.pdf|pages=24–25}}
* {{cite journal|author=Nino Gabrielli |title=Hubert Aquin, militant du RIN |journal =Bulletin d’histoire politique |date=Spring–Summer 2014 |url=https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/bhp/2014-v22-n3-bhp01312/1024143ar/ |pages=34–47 |volume=22 |number=3 }}
* {{cite journal|author=Léo-Paul Desaulniers |title=Ducharme, Aquin : conséquences de la ‘‘mort de l’auteur’’ |journal =Études françaises |volume=7 |number=4 |date=November 1971 |pages=398–409 |url=https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/etudfr/1971-v7-n4-etudfr1712/036501ar/ }}
* {{cite web|access-date=29 August 2009 |first=Jacques |last = Godbout |date=1979 |title=Deux épisodes dans la vie d'Hubert Aquin ({{Heure||56|53}}) |url=http://www.onf.ca/film/Deux_episodes_dans_la_vie_d_Hubert_Aquin |website=ONF.ca}}<!-- auto-translated from French by Module:CS1 translator -->
* {{cite journal|author=François Harvey|title=Hubert Aquin ''fade out'' : excentration, falsification et disparition dans les derniers écrits aquiniens|journal=[[Études françaises]]|volume=55|number=2|date=2019|url=https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/etudfr/2019-v55-n2-etudfr04745/1061910ar/|pages=137–157}}
* {{cite book|date=2006 |first1=Jacinthe |first2=Jean-Christian |last1=Martel |last2=Pleau |location=Quebec City |publisher=Presses de l'Université du Québec |title=Hubert Aquin en revue |url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=APnBAlNw0xYC}}<!-- auto-translated from French by Module:CS1 translator -->
* {{cite book|first=Guylaine | last = Massoutre |date=1992 |location=Montréal |publisher=Bibliothèque québécoise |title=Itinéraires d'Hubert Aquin |url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=BWBcAAAAMAAJ}}<!-- auto-translated from French by Module:CS1 translator -->
* {{cite web|access-date=7 January 2021 |date=2017-06-07|ref = {{SfnRef|SRC|2017}} |title=Les écrivains dans la course automobile |url=https://ici.radio-canada.ca/premiere/emissions/le-15-18/segments/chronique/26607/course-automobile-hubert-aquin-histoire |website=ici.radio-canada.ca}}<!-- auto-translated from French by Module:CS1 translator -->
* {{cite web|access-date=3 April 2011 |first=Patricia |last = Smart |date=2 April 2008 |title=Hubert Aquin |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/hubert-aquin |website=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]}}<!-- auto-translated from French by Module:CS1 translator -->
* {{cite journal|author=Patricia Smart|title=''Neige noire'', Hamlet et la coïncidence des contraires|journal=Études françaises|volume=11|number=2|date=May 1975|doi=10.7202/036606ar|pages=151–160}}
*{{cite web|author=Service des archives et de gestion des documents de l'[[Université du Québec à Montréal|UQAM]] |date=February 2008 |ref=UQAM-2008 |title=Fonds d'archives Hubert Aquin (Philippe et Stéphane Aquin) (192 p) |url=https://archives.uqam.ca/fonds-archives/archives-privees/11-gestion-archives-historiques/46-fonds-archives.html?varcote=192P}}<!-- auto-translated from French by Module:CS1 translator -->


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Hubert Aquin
Hubert Aquin during an interview for the magazine Québec français in October 1976.
Hubert Aquin during an interview for the magazine Québec français in October 1976.
Born(1929-10-24)24 October 1929
Montreal, Quebec
Died15 February 1977(1977-02-15) (aged 47)
Montreal, Quebec
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • Essayist
Notable works
Notable awardsGovernor General's Awards (not accepted)
Prix de la province de Québec
Prix Athanase-David
SpouseThérèse Larouche (1955-1975)
PartnerAndrée Yanacopoulo (1963-1977)
ChildrenPhilippe, Stéphane, Emmanuel
RelativesFrançois Aquin (cousin)

Hubert Aquin (24 October 1929 – 15 March 1977) was a Quebec writer, filmmaker and intellectual. He is particularly known for his novel Next Episode. He is also an important figure in the history of the Quebec independence movement, to which he contributed both as an activist and as an essayist. Tempted by suicide for a great part of his existence, he ended his life in 1977 in the gardens of Villa Maria College.

Biography

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Genealogy

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Hubert Aquin was born on 24 October 1929, at 4037 St-André Street, in Montreal. His family is mainly of French Canadian origin, but also of Irish origin through his great-grandmother, Helen McCardon.[1] He is the son of a Montreal sporting goods merchant.[2] He had three sons: Philippe and Stéphane, with his wife Thérèse Larouche, and Emmanuel with Andrée Yanacopoulo. François Aquin, his cousin, was elected as a Liberal Party of Quebec MLA in 1966, before leaving the party in 1967 and becoming an independent MLA, as he disagreed with the disapproval of his party leader Jean Lesage regarding De Gaulle's Vive le Québec libre! speech. Hubert Aquin is also the brother of engineer Richard Aquin with whom he tried to organize an auto racing Grand Prix in Montreal in the 1960s.[3]

Studies

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Aquin entered the Collège Sainte-Marie, a Jesuit school, in September 1946 and left in June 1948.[4] He obtained remarkable results there, according to Guylaine Massoutre. It was there that he met Louis-Georges Carrier, who would be a great friend of Aquin all his life. He also did theatre there, which helped him to overcome his great shyness as a child.[5] He enrolled in the philosophy faculty of Université de Montréal in September 1948, and received a degree in 1951, at the age of 21. During his time at Université de Montréal, he directed the student newspaper Le Quartier latin. He was then offered a job as a teacher at the university, but he turned it down, preferring to prepare for a career in journalism.[6] He then went to study at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris from 1951 to 1954. According to Aquin, every trip to Europe is a moment of "emotional shock" for him,[7] a theme that would later recur in his work.

Professional life

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As part of his professional activities, Aquin formed a friendship with Albert Memmi, a Tunisian decolonization intellectual.

Upon his return to Montreal in 1954, he was hired as a director and scriptwriter for Radio-Canada (from 1954 to 1959). Then, from 1959 to 1963, he was a director, producer and screenwriter at the National Film Board (NFB)[2] · .[8] For the NFB, he notably worked on the film À l'heure de la décolonisation, directed by Monique Fortier, which led Aquin to interview in 1962 figures of decolonization such as Albert Memmi (with whom he formed a friendship),[9] Messali Hadj, Octave Mannoni and Olympe Bhêly-Quenum.[7] Decolonization would be a major influence on his political writings. Then, during the same stay in Europe, he was received for three days by Georges Simenon,[10] of whom he was a great reader.[11] Aquin then made a film on Simenon, which never saw the light of day.[citation needed]

Aquin worked at the Montreal Stock Exchange from 1960 to 1964.[12] In 1966, based on an already written script, Aquin wrote the script for the film Faux bond, in which he eventually played the main role, after some hesitation. The images from the film will be used to illustrate several passages of the NFB documentary Deux épisodes dans la vie d'Hubert Aquin by Jacques Godbout.[13] In 1967, he began teaching literature at Collège Sainte-Marie.[14] In 1969, he was hired by the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM),[15] but he resigned in 1970, saying he disagreed with the policy of Rector Léo A. Dorais.[16] Carleton University, in Ottawa, hired him in 1974 as a visiting professor,[17] but did not renew his contract.[18]

In 1975, Aquin was appointed literary director of Éditions La Presse.[19] He lost his job in August 1976: he was fired following the publication of an open letter denouncing the cultural policies of Éditions La Presse towards Quebec works. He then accused his superior officer, Roger Lemelin, of "colonizing Quebec from the inside".[12] In 1976, Aquin returned to UQAM for a teaching position, but only taught there for one month due to a strike.[20] After the victory of the Parti Québécois in 1976, Aquin hoped to obtain a position within the government, such as Deputy Minister of Cultural Affairs, which did not come to fruition.[21]

Personal life

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In 1958,[22] Aquin discovered car racing, a passion that led him to work towards holding an auto racing Grand Prix on Île Sainte-Hélène.[23] To do this, he founded his own car racing company in 1960, "Le Grand Prix de Montréal Inc.".[24] He also included car racing in a film he made in 1961, Le Sport et les Hommes[25] (on which Roland Barthes collaborated), and the novel Next Episode. He dreamed of becoming a driver, but considered himself too old to think about it seriously.[22] A auto racing Grand Prix in Montreal would come to exist from 1978 onward.

It was at Radio-Canada that he met his future wife, Thérèse Larouche, a script girl for his friend Louis-Georges Carrier.[26] He married her in 1955. In 1963, he met Andrée Yanacopoulo. Born in Tunis to a half-Sicilian, half-Greek father and a French mother, Yanacopoulo graduated in medicine and sociology. She then prepared a thesis on suicide and researched "Depression among French Canadians in Montreal", supervised by Guy Rocher, a sociologist, and Camille Laurin, a psychiatrist and future pro-independence minister under René Lévesque. Yanacopoulo would be Aquin's lover until his death.[27] As for his couple with Thérèse Larouche, they began divorce proceedings in 1966.[28] The seizures on Aquin's income that followed contributed to his financial troubles.[29]

Political involvement

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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police visited his office in 1958. They confiscated works by authors such as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. A secret trial in Ottawa followed, lasting three or four days. He was questioned about his friendships during his university years, presumably because they were trying to track down communist activists. According to Guylaine Massoutre, these events "precipitated his political awareness and gave rise to his adherence to separatist ideology".[30] Having become an activist for Quebec independence, he was an executive member of the Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale (RIN) from 1960 to 1968.[12] In 1962, in the magazine Liberté, he published his most famous political text, La fatigue culturelle du Canada français, responding to an article published in Cité libre by Pierre Elliott Trudeau on the subject of independence: La nouvelle trahison des clercs.

On 19 June 1964, he publicly announced in a letter to the newspapers Le Devoir and Montréal-Matin that he was going "undercover" and becoming "commander of the Special Organization" with the aim of joining forces with the Front de libération du Québec[2] · [31] · .[32] He then took refuge at Louis-Georges Carrier's dwelling, then at Andrée Yanacopoulo's.[2] He meets Dr. Pierre Lefebvre, a psychiatrist and contributor to Parti pris,[2] who, on 26 June, concludes that immediate treatment is necessary due to a "nervous breakdown". On 29 June, a press release announces that the Special Organization will take action on the following 1 July.[33] On 5 July, Aquin is arrested by a plainclothes police officer in a stolen car, in possession of a revolver, in a parking lot behind the Saint Joseph's Oratory.

During his incarceration, he declares that his profession is: "revolutionary". Two charges were brought against him: "theft and posession of stolen goods" and "possession of an offensive weapon for a dangerous purpose".[34] He was then interned for two months in a psychiatric hospital, the Albert-Prévost Institute, in the maximum security wing. It was during this stay that he began writing his novel Next Episode,[2] which tells the story of an imprisoned revolutionary. The verdict of the trial, deferred, only arrived in 1966. Aquin was then acquitted because of contradictory testimonies given about his mental health. His pistol was however confiscated.[35]

Around May 1966, Aquin left Quebec to live in Switzerland. There he became interested in the "Jura question", and tried to make contact with autonomists in the Bernese Jura.[36] On 29 August, he was questioned by the police of the canton of Vaud about his membership in the RIN, and his imprisonment. He was then suspected of collusion with the Front de libération jurassien.[29] On 19 November, on behalf of the Federal Foreigners Police, the canton of Vaud refused him a residence permit that he needed to live in Nyon. He was told that he had to leave Switzerland before 15 January 1967, under the pretext of "foreign overpopulation".[37] Aquin then moved to Paris, and remained there until 21 March 1967.[36] He then returned to Montreal.[38] During 1969, he denounced the decision to dissolve the RIN in favor of René Lévesque's Mouvement Souveraineté-Association, and left the party.[12]

Literary production

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The novel Next Episode takes place in part near Lake Geneva, in Switzerland.

In 1952, Aquin wrote Les Rédempteurs, a work that remained unpublished until 1959.[39] His texts appeared in various magazines, starting in 1959, including in Parti pris, Le Magazine Maclean, Voix et images du pays, Écrits du Canada français and the literary magazine Liberté, of which he was director from 1961[40] to 1962.[41] Next Episode,[2] his best-known novel, was published in 1965 in Montreal, then in 1966 in Paris and translated into English in 1967 in Toronto. In Quebec, it was a success in terms of sales and reviews. The first edition sold out in two and a half months, and, in Le Devoir, the literary critic Jean Éthier-Blais ended his article about the book by exclaiming: "We do not have to look any further. We have him, our great writer. My God, thank you. »[42] In Paris, the critical reception was however more mixed.[43] [check quotation syntax] In 1969, he was the first Quebec writer to refuse the Governor General's Literary Award which was awarded to him for his novel Trou de mémoire, from 1968.[12] Also in 1969, he published L'Antiphonaire which, like his subsequent novels (and unlike the two preceding ones), does not contain any explicit political reference. In 1971, he published Point de fuite. That year, he resigned from the editorial board of Liberté because, he said, the magazine had ignored the events of the October Crisis of 1970 in order to avoid losing funding from the Canada Council for the Arts.[12] In 1974, Aquin published Neige noire, a modern version of Hamlet. At the end of his life, he planned to write Obombre, a work that would remain unfinished. His novel L'Invention de la mort, written around 1959 or 1960, was finally published posthumously in 1991.[44]

Suicide

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Suicide is an idea that haunts Aquin for many years, and he often evokes it with his friends in the form of jokes.[45] On 29 March 1971, he failed a suicide attempt in a room of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel by swallowing barbiturates. He is hospitalized at the Sacré-Cœur Hospital until 4 April.[46] At the hotel, he had registered under the name of his character from his novel The Antiphonary, J. W. Forrestier.[47] On 15 March 1977, he attempted suicide again, this time with a firearm in the gardens of the Villa Maria College in Montreal, leaving his partner Andrée Yanacopoulo a final note:

Today, 15 March 1977, I have no more reserves in me. I feel destroyed. I cannot rebuild myself and I do not want to rebuild myself. It is a choice. I feel peaceful, my act is positive, it is the act of a living person. Don't forget that I always knew that I would choose the moment, my life has come to an end. I have lived intensely, it is over.

— Hubert Aquin[2]

Reputation in English Canada

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Regarded in English Canada as a classic of Canadian literature, Aquin's novel Next Episode (the English translation of Prochain épisode by Sheila Fischman), was chosen for the 2003 edition of CBC Radio's Canada Reads competition, where it was championed by journalist Denise Bombardier. It was the winning title, because of the deciding vote of future Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau, who was also on the panel and voted against the book he was initially defending, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston.[48] Justin Trudeau is the son of former Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, who Aquin was responding to with La fatigue culturelle du Canada français. An earlier English translation by Penny Williams, keeping the French title, was published in 1967. A notable work in English about Aquin is HA!: A Self-Murder Mystery (2003), an experiment in biography by Aquin's friend Gordon Sheppard.

Tributes and conservation

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Le pavillon Hubert Aquin de l'Université du Québec à Montréal.

The Hubert-Aquin building at the Université du Québec à Montréal (built from 1975 to 1979) is named in his (posthumous) honour.

The Hubert Aquin archives are held at the Montreal archives centre of the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.[40]

In 1979, the Quebec writer and filmmaker Jacques Godbout made a documentary entitled Two episodes in the life of Hubert Aquin.[2]

Hubert-Aquin Street was named in his honor in 1984 in Quebec City.

Honours

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Works

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Books

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Novels

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  • 1965 : Prochain épisode (Next Episode)
  • 1968 : Trou de mémoire (Blackout)
  • 1969 : L'Antiphonaire (The Antiphonary)
  • 1971 : Point de fuite
  • 1971 : Neige noire (Hamlet's Twin)
  • 1959 : L'Invention de la mort (written in 1959, published in 1990)

Essays

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Films

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Producer

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  • 1960 : L'Exil en banlieue
  • 1960 : Les Grandes Religions
  • 1960 : Quatre enfants du monde
  • 1961 : Quatre instituteurs
  • 1961 : Le Temps des amours
  • 1962 : Jour après jour
  • 1963 : Trois pays, trois grand-mères
  • 1963 : Trois pays, trois apprentis
  • 1963 : Jour de mariage
  • 1963 : L'Homme vite

Director

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  • 1959 : Le Sport et les hommes[25]
  • 1961 : Le Temps des amours
  • 1962 : À Saint-Henri le cinq septembre
  • 1962 : Simenon voit la France / La France de Simenon (working titles of a documentary made by Hubert Aquin with Georges Simenon and his wife, Denyse Ouimet, but never edited)
  • 1963 : À l'heure de la décolonisation (documentary conceived and partially directed by Hubert Aquin, but completed by Monique Fortier, to whom the production is attributed)

Writer

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  • 1964 : La Fin des étés

Actor

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Further reading

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  • Sheppard, Gordon, HA! A Self-Murder Mystery. (2003) Experimental biography centred on the suicide of Aquin and other notable suicides in literary history.
  • Smart, Patricia, Hubert Aquin agent double, (1973).
  • Legris, Renée, "Hubert Aquin et la radio. Une quête d'écriture (1954–1977)", Médiaspaul, (2004).
  • Palumbo, Filippo, Hubert Aquin et la Gnose, PhD, Universite de Montreal (Canada), 2011, 349 pp., AAT NR74925; https://papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca/jspui/bitstream/1866/4817/2/Palumbo_Filippo_2010_these.pdf.

Notes and references

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  1. ^ Massoutre 1992, p. 24
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Godbout 1979
  3. ^ Massoutre 1992, p. 138
  4. ^ Massoutre 1992, pp. 31, 37
  5. ^ Massoutre 1992, p. 37
  6. ^ Massoutre 1992, p. 58
  7. ^ a b Massoutre 1992, p. 133
  8. ^ Massoutre 1992, p. 107
  9. ^ Caccia 2004
  10. ^ Massoutre 1992, p. 134
  11. ^ Massoutre 1992, pp. 328–329
  12. ^ a b c d e f Smart 2008
  13. ^ Massoutre 1992, pp. 166–167
  14. ^ Massoutre 1992, p. 183
  15. ^ Massoutre 1992, p. 203
  16. ^ Massoutre 1992, p. 211
  17. ^ Massoutre 1992, p. 249
  18. ^ Massoutre 1992, p. 252
  19. ^ Massoutre 1992, p. 256
  20. ^ Massoutre 1992, pp. 288–289
  21. ^ Massoutre 1992, pp. 292, 298
  22. ^ a b Massoutre 1992, p. 101
  23. ^ SRC 2017, p. 107
  24. ^ Massoutre 1992, p. 113
  25. ^ a b Aquin 1961
  26. ^ Massoutre 1992, p. 86
  27. ^ Massoutre 1992, p. 146
  28. ^ Massoutre 1992, pp. 170, 172
  29. ^ a b Massoutre 1992, p. 173
  30. ^ Massoutre 1992, p. 100
  31. ^ Le Devoir 1964, p. 3
  32. ^ Massoutre 1992, p. 151
  33. ^ Massoutre 1992, p. 152
  34. ^ Massoutre 1992, p. 154
  35. ^ Massoutre 1992, p. 169
  36. ^ a b Massoutre 1992, p. 171
  37. ^ Massoutre 1992, p. 175
  38. ^ Massoutre 1992, p. 180
  39. ^ Massoutre 1992, p. 105
  40. ^ a b BAnQ
  41. ^ Massoutre 1992, pp. 521–522
  42. ^ Blais 1965
  43. ^ Massoutre 1992, pp. 173–174
  44. ^ Fournier 1992, p. 24
  45. ^ Massoutre 1992, p. 122
  46. ^ Massoutre 1992, p. 223
  47. ^ Martel & Pleau 2006, p. 140
  48. ^ CBC 2019

See also

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Bibliography

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