Hubert Aquin, very probably the greatest novelist of modern Quebec, was born and grew up in Montreal. He was the son of Jean Aquin, owner of a sporting goods store, and of Lucile Leger Aquin. He had two sons, Stéphane and Philippe, by his first...
Hubert Aquin (born 24 October 1929, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada–15 March 1977) was a novelist, political activist, essayist, filmmaker and editor. Aquin graduated from the Université de Montréal in 1951. From 1951 to 1954, he studied at the...
It seems that at some point in her career, the feminist critic of Quebec literature is compelled to study Hubert Aquin, and in particular, his controversial and often violent rapport with all things female. It is not an altogether pleasant moment, but it...
Hubert Lansley's writing was eagerly looked for every month in the late 1920s by the many thousands of intelligent boys (and a few girls) who were "hooked" on the Meccano hobby. In his articles in Meccano Magazine he showed new ways of using all...
Readers and critics have unanimously recognized that the substance of Hubert Aquin's Prochain Episode is governed by the vertical superposition of two different, but mutually qualifying, temporal movements: one related to the real world of the clinic where the narrator is incarcerated and kept under strict surveillance and the other to the world created in his own mind. Also unanimously agreed upon is that the narrator-prisoner, who is waiting for the date of his case in court and sentence, commits h...
As has been frequently pointed out, the problem of individual and national identity is fundamental in Hubert Aquin's [first] three novels—so fundamental, in fact, that it can perhaps be considered their focal point. Aquin likes to present characters who are "abnormal" in some sense. Either they must contend with intense pressure from the outside (the risk of imprisonment and psychoanalysis in Prochain épisode), or they are under the influence of drugs (in Trou de mé...
Hailed today as one of the major Canadian writers of the twentieth century, as a literary saint and as a national hero, Hubert Aquin was immediately recognized as an important new writer when his first novel, the powerfully angry Prochain Episode was published in 1965. With Trou de Mémoire (1968) and L'Antiphonaire (1969) his reputation was firmly established within Quebec. A Prix de Québec and a refused Governor-General's award were the prelude to Quebec's most prestigiou...
