Name	MacLennan, Hugh
Alternative Names
ID	432
Gender	male
Lifespan	1907-03-20 - 1990-11-09

Collection(s)	Default import collection Transatlantic Networks
Uri(s)	https://id.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/ica/persons/1_92
Notes	During the 1930s, MacLennan was ready to show empathy for the defeated Austrian opposition. He later became an important nationalist fiction writer in Canada. Hugh MacLennan drafted a novel in which the reform projects of the Austrian Social Democrats, the housing projects, play a major role. “A Man Should Rejoice,” still unpublished today, survives in the form of drafts and final manuscripts in the Special Collections of the Hugh MacLennan Library at Montreal’s McGill University library. The novel mirrors the appeal of the socialist cooperatives and of their struggle to North American intellectuals, and their sympathy for the casualties of the Austrian Civil War.(Zacharasiewicz, Transatlantic Networks, p. 187-88)
References	Special Collections of the Hugh MacLennan Library at Montreal’s McGill University library. “Hugh MacLennan and the Central European Scene,” Waldemar Zacharasiewicz and Fritz Peter Kirsch, eds. Canadian Interculturality and the Transatlantic Heritage, Vienna: WUV Facultas,2005, 159-71.