| Life Itself: Louis Paul Boon as Innovator of the Novel Contributor(s): Oever, Annie Van Den (Author), Visser, Annette (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1564785076 ISBN-13: 9781564785077 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - German |
| Dewey: 839.313 |
| LCCN: 2007044914 |
| Series: Dalkey Archive Scholarly |
| Physical Information: 0.36" H x 5.78" W x 8.06" (0.43 lbs) 137 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |