zzxv’Peta[bs &POtS Inc seven novels and hundreds of essays on everyâ€" thing from politics to gardening. © Many critics have hailed Two Solitudes as the most powerful and important Canadian novel ever published. Two Solitudes is the story of a Quebec landowner, Athanase Tallard, during the first World War. A Federal MP, Tallard supports conscription, only to find himself in conflict with the village priest and his son Marius, who oppose conscription. Paul, Tallard‘s son by a second marriage to an English speaking woman, is torn between his dual past. After Tallard‘s death, the story centers around Paul and his role in the Angloâ€"French struggle. MacLelian wrote, ‘"Love consists in this, that +wo solitudes protect, and touch, and greet cach other." As the first Canadian novelist io wrestle with and examine the Frenchâ€"Eng!‘sh problem in Canada, he opened up anc examined grievances that had been festerin«, since Confederation. Hugh Macâ€" Lennan, the inan behind the novels, is revealed in his biography, Hugh MacLennan: A Writer‘s Life, by Elspeth Cameron. The saga of two of Canada‘sâ€"most famous > writers has come to an end. After a lifetime of writing, the late Morley Callaghan:(1903â€"1990) and Hugh MacLennan (1907â€"1990), have left the 7z literary world a lasting collection of: writing ~ â€" spanning a period of 60 years. it would be difficult to estimate how many writers and readers have been inspired by these literary fl giants. Hugh MacLennan was born in Glace Bay, Cape Breton Island and died last November. He I produced a steady output of novels and articles _ Sit and won five Governor General‘s Awards for his ° ~ 19 books. Hevattended Oxford and Princeton and pu taughtEmbhumflhewasH.pum&hst Coi novel, Voices in Time, in 1980. 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A fitting epitaph for Hugh MacLelian and Morley Callaghan could be, ‘‘They blazed the trail Moriey Callaghan graduated from the Univerâ€" sity of Toronto and Osgoode Law School, but in 1928, me‘“y:;“mmehbw.m published novel, Strange Fugitive. it was considered ‘a dismal novel set in Toronto. in all, he ‘wrote 20 novels and more tharr 100 short stories. He received a Governor General‘s Award and also wrote essays, plays, reviews. In later years Callaghan was referred to as the "‘grand old man of Canadian fiction‘‘. He was Canada‘s first fullâ€"time writer and moved Canaâ€" dian fiction out of its rural enclave into a harsh Marg Zavaros is a Waterioo freelance writer. 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