Chapel Road
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Engelsk
A meta-textual matryoshka doll of a novel from a renowned voice in Flemish literature. The twisting narrative of Louis Paul Boon’s 1953 masterpiece follows a young girl named Ondine and her brother Va...
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A meta-textual matryoshka doll of a novel from a renowned voice in Flemish literature. The twisting narrative of Louis Paul Boon’s 1953 masterpiece follows a young girl named Ondine and her brother Valeer, born into poverty at the turn of the century in the industrial city of Aalst, Belgium. Ondine’s coming of age is interwoven with a reworking of the medieval fable of Reynard the Fox, as well as a metanarrative in which an author named Louis Paul Boon and his colorful group of friends discuss the writing of a novel named Chapel Road, debating how best to present Ondine’s story. Groundbreaking among post-war Dutch literature for its postmodern structure and irreverent, dialect-studded use of language, Boon’s allegory of the rise and fall of socialism in Flanders presents his theory of the novel as a type of “illegal writing” where digressions are far more important than a carefully constructed plot.
Detaljer
Forlag
Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN
9781628975192
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
340
Udgivelsesdato
04-12-2025
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
3363243
EAN nr.
9781628975192
Varegruppe
Fiction
Højde/Dybde (mm)
139
Bredde (mm)
215