Een zachte vernieling
by Hugo Claus
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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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- Original title
- Een zachte vernieling
- Original publication date
- 1988
- Important places*
- Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, België; Parijs
- First words*
- Ik hoorde het vanmorgen op de radio, op het nieuws van half acht terwijl ik mij aan het scheren was, snel en slordig, want ik was te laat, ik had slecht geslapen omdat ik tot drie uur 's nachts naar The Barefoot Contessa op m... (show all)ijn video had gekeken, met twintig sigaretten en een halve liter Marc de Bourgogne.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)'Jij bent mijn eten en drinken'
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
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- 839.3136 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures Other Germanic literatures Netherlandish literatures Dutch Dutch fiction 20th Century
- LCC
- PT6410 .C553 .Z3 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures Flemish literature since 1830 Individual authors or works
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