Omtrent Deedee

by Hugo Claus

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In essentie over de jaarlijkse bijeenkomst van de familie Heylen in de pastorie van Memmel, om hun gestorven moeder te herdenken.
Feilloze typering van de kleinburgerlijke personages: de dikke Nathalie, die als meid bij de pastoor is ingetrokken en nu zowat als zijn vrouw fungeert, haar zus Jeanne (frivool, uitdagend) met haar Italiaanse echtgenoot Giaco (obsessioneel vegetarisch en hyperklinisch), haar broer Albert (ziekelijk, werkloos, alcoholist) met zijn zoon Antoine en diens Lotte en zijn halfzoon Claude (zoon van zijn alcoholiste-vrouw Taatje uit een andere relatie), mevrouw Tilly (deftig aanhangsel) en de ster van de show: DD, afkorting voor André, dienstdoende dienaar, die eigenlijk de pastoor blijkt te zijn.

Vooral rond het show more beeld van die pastoor verschillen de invalshoeken: allemaal hebben ze groot ontzag voor hem (vanwege zijn “mystieke” band), maar geleidelijk wordt dat ontzag helemaal ondergraven, vooral omdat DD zijn best doet om “af te dalen” tot het niveau van de Heylens.
Weergaloos beheerste stijl: sober en toch trefzekere registratie van markante details en emoties. Een hoogtepunt. Hoofdthematiek is andermaal de kleinburgerlijke moraal en de beslotenheid van de individuen.
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Vlaamse familieroman. Niet aan mij besteed.
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Author and artist Hugo Claus was born in Bruges, Belgium in 1929. While in Paris, in his early twenties, he explored surrealism, existentialism, and modernism as a member of the Cobra group of experimentalist artists. Later in Rome he concerned himself with filmmaking and actually produced a film called Friday for which he wrote the script show more himself. He can be regarded as the primary developer of a technique which has become known as intertextuality. Its application in The Sign of the Hamster led to accusations of plagiarism, an accusation which many critics rejected because of the recognizability of the references which vary from the classics to the Middle Ages and his own time. He gained recognition as painter, poet, playwright, filmmaker, and writer of classical, psychological, modernist, and experimentalist novels. His best known work is The Sorrow of Belgium. The book consists of two parts, the first strongly autobiographic, situated in a Roman Catholic boarding school in Belgium, from which Louis, the protagonist, is expelled. The second part describes the experiences of a large number of people, including Louis's mother and father, during and shortly after World War II. He was charged with blasphemy for the play Masscheroen because of his irreverent representation of the Holy Trinity on the stage. This charge and the possibility of plagiarism identify Claus as a controversial writer. He died by euthanasia in Antwerp, Belgium on March 19, 2008. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Canonical title*
Omtrent Deedee
Original title
Omtrent Deedee
Original publication date
1963
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Pastoor Deedee
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General Fiction, Fiction and Literature
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839.31364Literature & rhetoricGerman & related literaturesOther Germanic literaturesNetherlandish literaturesDutchDutch fiction20th Century1945-1999
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PT6410 .C553 .O5Language and LiteratureGerman, Dutch and Scandinavian literaturesFlemish literature since 1830Individual authors or works

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