num_pages: 208
description: 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.
language: French
title: Hamlet's Twin
titlecomplete: Hamlet's Twin
genres: France, Canada, Fiction
ratings_count: 64
awards: awardedAt: 157795200000
name: Grand Prix du livre de Montréal
publisher: McClelland & Stewart