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Life Itself

Name: Life Itself
Brand: Dalkey Archive Press
SKU: 04813797
Price: 25.61 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: A. van den Oever
ISBN: 9781564785077

Louis Paul Boon as Innovator of the Novel

A. van den Oever

Language

English

Book Paperback

Libristo code: 04813797

Publishers Dalkey Archive Press, March 2008

Life Itself is the first book-length study in English of the great Flemish writer Louis Paul Boon. A... Full description

Libristo code: 04813797

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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.