Life Itself : Louis Paul Boon as Innovator of the Novel

Name: Life Itself
Brand: Dalkey Archive Press
SKU: 9781564785077
Price: 3700 KES
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ISBN: 9781564785077

by Annie Van Den Oever

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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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