Hubert Aquin

Hamlet's Twin (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Written as a screenplay, Hamlet's Twin chronicles the unusual honeymoon of a contemporary young couple, Nicholas and Sylvie Vanhesse, as they travel to Norway, and, eventually, to a mythical archipelago near the North Pole. Nicholas, while playing Fortinbras in a television production of Hamlet, becomes obsessed with the thought that Fortinbras was Hamlet's estranged twin. His trip to Norway becomes a symbolic journey towards claiming his own rights and achieving his own revenge. Hubert Aquin's Hamlet's Twin is as tragic and as full of self-conscious riddles as its namesake.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McClelland & Stewart
• Seitenzahl: 126
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781551996233
• Artikelnr.: 43169110

Autorenporträt

Hubert Aquin was born in Montreal, Quebec, in 1929. After receiving his licentiate in philosophy from the Université de Montréal, he spent three years at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris, then returned to the Université de Montréal, where he studied for one year at the Institute of History. 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. One of Quebec's prominent essayists, he turned to fiction in the 1960s. Next Episode (1965), Aquin's first novel, is the searing first-person account of terrorism about to be perpetrated by the novel's young narrator. Hubert Aquin died in Montreal, Quebec, in 1977.