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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Sorrow of Belgium (Tusk Ivories) (originale 1983; edizione 2003)di Hugo Claus (Autore)
Informazioni sull'operaLa sofferenza del Belgio di Hugo Claus (1983)
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Plat, banaal, bevat alle denkbare clichés. Het kostte een inspanning om het helemaal uit te lezen. Naar mijn gevoel is dit geen literatuur. ( ) 1939 ist Louis Seynaeve elf Jahre alt. Wohnhaft in der fiktiven belgischen Kleinstadt Walle wird er in im fiktiven katholischen Knabeninternat Haarbeeke erzogen. Sein Vater ist flämischer Nationalist, seine Familie wohlbegütert. Hugo Claus zweigeteiltes Werk schildert zunächst Louis Leben im Internat am Vorabend des zweiten Weltkriegs. Katholische Bigotterie, erste (homoerotische) sexuelle Erfahrungen, jugendliche Abenteuer und Erkundungen, fehlende elterliche Zuneigung aber auch die dumpfe Vorahnung eines deutschen Einmarsches prägen den als "Der Kummer" betitelten ersten Teil. Im zweiten Teil, von Claus "Von Belgien" tituliert, marschieren schließlich die Deutschen ein und steht Louis' Heimat unter nationalsozialistischer Okkupation. Dieser Teil beschäftigt sich mit der Besatzungszeit, insbesondere auch mit der vielfältigen Kollaboration der Belgier, insbesondere in den Kreisen flämischer Nationalisten. Doch die Strahlkraft des Nationalsozialismus und seiner Jugendorganisationen lässt analog zum Kriegsverlauf nach. Claus' bekanntestes Werk ist ein klassischer Bildungsroman umrahmt von der Besatzungszeit in Belgien. Der Roman spielt zwar in einer fiktiven Stadt in Flandern, die Handlung ist jedoch stark autobiographisch geprägt. Claus schildert Louis Entwicklung anhand einzelner nicht direkt zusammenhängender Episoden meist aus dessen eigener Perspektive auf monumentalen 688 Seiten. Dabei mäandern die Gedanken des jugendlichen Erzählers oft schwer nachvollziehbar, weshalb der Roman schwer lesbar ist. Lesefluss und -freude vermag sich kaum einzustellen, wenngleich die Darstellung der Kriegszeit Belgiens historisch interessant ist. Ik heb dit boek gelezen kort na de verschijning. Ik was toen eind 20. Dit boek was Een Openbaring, zowel door het verhaal als door het taalgebruik. Wat een mooi Nederlands. Ik heb een voorliefde voor Duits vanwege de pracht van de woorden en de erg logische grammatica. Sommige Nederlandstalige schrijvers halen eveneens een hoog niveau. De miniserie over dit boek werd een beetje miskent vind ik. Deze gaf nochtans excellent weer wat ik voelde tijdens het lezen van het boek. In his essay collection Familiearchief : notities over voorouders, tijdgenoten en mijzelf the Dutch historian E.H. Kossmann describes how in the Netherlands the culture of writing about the war has resulted in the paradigm that a number of people were collaborators, and therefore "black" or bad, a number of people was in the resistance, and therefore "white" or good, while most of the population was "grey", and therefore "suspicious. While the Black/White view can be explained and accepted, categorizing the rest of the population as suspicious is rather peculiar. Kossmann suggests that as long as people did not eagerly collaborate, while collaboration was limited for the necessity of one's personal survival, the general population should be considered good. In Dutch novels about the Second World War, this division is almost always very clear. However, in reality, of course, things were not so clear, and although it would perhaps be too strong to use the word "suspicious" any form of "limited collaboration" is extremely flexible and can be interpreted in very many ways. Likewise, the justification of personal survival, possibly extended to family members is very pliable. That is just what Hugo Claus's novel Het verdriet van België is about. Describing the lives of a number of ordinary Belgium people, from shortly before the war and throughout the war years, there are no obvious collaborators. Neither does Claus focus on the resistance. The characters in his novel belong to the general population, and how they deal with the occupation on a day-to-day basis. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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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. Then the Nazis invade Belgium, and he grows up fast. Bewildered by his family -- a stuffy father who actually welcomes the occupation and a flirtatious mother who works for (and plays with) the Germans -- he is seemingly at the center of so much he can't understand. Gradually, as he confronts the horrors of the war and its aftermath, the eccentric and often petty behavior of his colorful relatives and neighbors, and his own inner turmoil, he achieves a degree of maturity -- at the cost of deep disillusion. Epic in scope, by turns hilarious and elegiac, The Sorrow of Belgium is the masterwork by one of the world's greatest contemporary authors. Book jacket. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)839.31364Literature German literature and literatures of related languages Other Germanic literatures Netherlandish literatures Dutch Dutch fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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