Impressions
A summer series from the early 1970s, each week of Impressions featured Ramsay Cook in conversation with a prominent Canadian. The CBC Digital Archives has selected nine episodes from the series featuring rare and unfiltered conversations with some of Canada's most creative people. The producer of Impressions was Judith Walle, and the executive producer Ain Soodor.
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Hubert Aquin, a 'writer against his will'
Broadcast Date: July 14, 1974
Hubert Aquin's career as a novelist is the unlikely result of his own tumultuous days as a Quebec sovereigntist, radical activist and even self-avowed terrorist. In his own words, Aquin became "a writer against his own will." In this 1974 CBC-TV interview, Aquin discusses his own development within the changing culture of French Canada, his unusual career and his landmark book Prochain episode.Hubert Aquin, a 'writer against his will'
• As discussed in this clip, Hubert Aquin was a militant activist and was in psychotherapy when he began writing Prochain episode in 1964. Aquin was a member of the Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale, a radical Quebec separatist party. In 1964, he announced he was "going underground" to work for sovereignty through terrorism. He was arrested for illegal possession of a firearm soon after and was placed in a psychiatric hospital for four months.• Hubert Aquin died of a self-inflicted gunshot to the head on March 15, 1977. He left a suicide note which read, in part, "I have lived intensely, and now it is over."
Hubert Aquin, a 'writer against his will'
Medium: Television
Program: Impressions
Broadcast Date: July 14, 1974
Guest(s): Hubert Aquin
Host: Ramsay Cook
Duration: 25:45
Last updated:
May 26, 2010
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Impressions
Hubert Aquin, a 'writer against his will'.
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Last updated: May 26, 2010.
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