Summer in Termuren by Louis Paul Boon

Summer in Termuren by Louis Paul Boon

This, the author writes, is "the novel of the individual in a world of barbarians." It is the story of Ondine and Oscarke, a young married couple adrift in a Belgian landscape that is darkening under the spread of industry and World War I. Ondine, who "came to serve god and live," finds that she must "serve the gentlemen" instead. Oscarke, an aspiring sculptor, finds himself unsuccessfully scouring Brussels for work and, when he is finally hired, too tired to make his own art. They grow old and their four children grow up as "technology and mechanization, unemployment, fascism, and war" take over around them. War destroys their attempts to establish a better life, which they seek continually and against all odds. And the chapters about these characters, some of whom first appeared in Chapel Road, alternate with chapters about Boon himself, who describes the impossibility of modern life and the destruction of war. As this wide-ranging novel progresses, the author's struggles--both with writing and with his own life--come more and more to resemble those of his characters.

"Boon, one of the best realists we have, doesn't just represent things; he recreates and offers it to us in a world of dream and magic in this long, sad, revolting, profound and beautiful book" - Jan Walravens"

P. C. Evans is a poet and a translator of Dutch plays, two of which have been  staged by Kevin Spacey at the Old Vic Threatre in London. Paul Vincent is the translator of  more than a dozen works of Dutch fiction.

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ISBN 13	9781564784148
ISBN 10	1564784142
Titel	Summer in Termuren
Autor	Louis Paul Boon
Serie	Netherlandic Literature
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Dalkey Archive Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2006-10-19
Seitenanzahl	489
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.