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The Sorrow of Belgium (Dutch: Het verdriet van België) is a 1983 novel by the Belgian author Hugo Claus (1929–2008). The book, widely considered Claus's most important work and "the most important Dutch-language novel of the twentieth century", [1] is a Bildungsroman which explores themes around politics and growing up in Flanders ...
- Hugo Claus
- 1983
La pena de Bélgica ( neerlandés: Het verdriet van België) es una novela del escritor belga Hugo Claus publicada en 1983 y considerada una de sus obras más destacadas. 1 Cuenta la historia, parcialmente autobiográfica de un joven flamenco que crece en una familia pequeñoburguesa de Flandes que simpatiza con el nazismo y colabora con el ocupante...
One of the landmark European novels of the post-war era. J.M. Coetzee. This Bildungsroman is also a social document about political and social misfortune in Flanders before, during, and after World War II. In particular, it is a look from within at the man-in-the-street in wartime and at the circumstances that gave rise to collaboration.
He also used the pseudonyms Jan Hyoens and Thea Streiner. The 1962 De verwondering (The Astonishment) and the 1983 Het verdriet van België (The Sorrow of Belgium) rank among Claus' most significant works as a novelist. Lee views Het verdriet van België as a postmodern critique of national identity.
A classic novel in the tradition of The Tin Drum, The Sorrow of Belgium is a searing, scathingly funny portrait of a wartime Belgium and one boy's coming of age -- emotionally, sexually, and politically. In 1939, Louis Seynaeve, a ten-year-old Flemish student, is chiefly occupled with schoolboy adventures and lurid adolescent fantasies.
Hugo Claus. "The Sorrow of Belgium" is a coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of World War II. The narrative follows the life of a young boy in a Flemish town, as he navigates through the complexities of adolescence, family relationships, and the harsh realities of war.
Hugo Claus: Het verdriet van België (The Sorrow of Belgium) This long novel is set in Belgium from shortly before the beginning of World War II to shortly after its end. Its aim is fairly clear – to show the hypocrisy and pettiness of the Flemish Belgians during this period, not in a satirical or bitter way (though both aspects have their ...
