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 t...
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Critical Essay by Ofelia Cohn-sfetcu
Readers and critics have unanimously recognized that the substance of Hubert Aquin's Prochain Episode is governed by the vertical superposition of two diffe...
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Critical Essay by Linda Leith
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 impo...
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Critical Essay by Roland Bourneuf
As has been frequently pointed out, the problem of individual and national identity is fundamental in Hubert Aquin's [first] three novels—so fundamental...
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