Life Itself : Louis Paul Boon as Innovator of the Novel
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Dalkey Archive Scholarly
ISBN-10
1564785076
ISBN-13
9781564785077
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Imprint
Dalkey Archive Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 17th, 2008
Print length
137 Pages
Weight
195 grams
Dimensions
20.40 x 14.60 x 0.90 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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Life Itself is the first book-length study in English of the great Flemish writer Louis Paul Boon. A.M.A. van den Oever begins by questioning the paradox between Boon's international reputation as a significant innovator of the novel, and the peculiarly reductive biographical interpretations regularly uttered by some of his fellow countrymen and contemporaries. She looks for answers in Boon's misinterpreted "primitive" Flemish and analyzes the so-called refined pseudo-primitive style within both the grotesque tradition (Kafka, van Ostaijen, Gogol) and the skeptical, radical tradition of Nietzsche. In addition, she offers fresh insight into Boon's character Boontje, seen by many as a diminutive for the writer himself, outlining the sublime and slightly sinister relation of this quasi-comical character to its mighty creator.
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