Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 1993. [Vol. 1.] Eger Journal of American Studies. (Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 21)

STUDIES - Anna Jakabfi: Regionalism and the Surgeon Figure in Hugh MacLennan's Fiction

ANNA JAKABFI REGIONALISM AND THE SURGEON FIGURE IN HUGH MACLENNAN'S FICTION For Dr. B. E. Hugh MacLennan was born on March 20, 1907 in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia and died on November 7, 1990 in Montreal, Québec. In between the two dates he had widely travelled in Europe and lived most of his life in Montreal. Had he obtained a job in the Maritimes he would never have ventured out so far from his birth place. Later in his life he visited his relatives, his home-town friends there. During the months of OctoberNovember 1982 he occupied the Winthorp Pickard Bell Chair of Maritime Studies at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New brunswick. Hugh MacLennan was thrilled at being able to work "at home": "Here I am working at last

—in a Maritime University. Coming back to the Maritimes has always been a home-coming to hundreds of thousands of us exiles. Life is gentler here than in the great cities. It is certainly much healthier and saner... So now I am home again. On holiday, one might say, from the divided metropolis where I have spent nearly all my working life. I am very glad to be here..."

1 1 Hugh MacLennan, On Being a Maritime Writer. (Sackville: Mount Allison University, 1984), p. 8. 47