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Author | : Hugo Claus |
Publisher | : Pantheon |
Total Pages | : 632 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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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.
Author | : Leonid Andreyev |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Belgium |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Martin Conway |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 2012-01-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199694346 |
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The liberation of Belgium by Allied troops in September 1944 marked the end of a harsh German Occupation, but also the beginning of a turbulent and decisive period in the history of the country. There would be no easy transition to peace. Instead, the rival political forces of King Leopold III and his supporters, the former government in exile in London, and the Resistance movements which had emerged during the Occupation confronted each other in a bitter struggle for political ascendancy. The subsequent few years were dominated by an almost continual air of political and social crisis as Resistance demonstrations, strikes, and protests for and against the King appeared to threaten civil war and the institutional dissolution of the country. And yet by 1947 a certain stability had been achieved: the Resistance groups had been marginalised, the Communist Party was excluded from government, the King languished in unwilling exile in Switzerland, and, most tangibly, the pre-war political parties and the parliamentary political regime had been restored. In this substantial contribution to the history of the liberation era in Europe, Martin Conway provides the first account, based on substantial new archival material, of this process of political normalisation, which provided the basis for the integration of Belgium into the post-war West European political order. That success, however, came at a cost: the absence of any substantial political reform after the Second World War exacerbated the tensions between the different social classes, linguistic communities, and regions within Belgium, providing the basis for the gradual unravelling of the Belgian nation-state which occurred over the second half of the twentieth century.
Author | : Leonid Andreyev |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2018-08-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783337548568 |
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Author | : Leonid Andreyev |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2020-03-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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The action takes place in Belgium, at the beginning of the war of 1914. The scene represents a garden near the villa of the famous Belgian author, Emil Grelieu. Beyond the tops of low trees, beyond the stone fence which divides Grelieu's estate from the neighboring gardens, are seen the outlines of the red roofs of the houses in the small town, of the Town Hall, and of an ancient church. There the people already know about the war; there the church bells are ringing uneasily, while in the garden there is still peace. A small, splendidly kept flower garden; beautiful and fragrant flowers; shrubbery in bloom; a nook of a hothouse. The glass covers are half open. The sun is shining softly; there is in the air the bluish mist of a warm and quiet day, and all colors seem tenderly soft; only in the foreground the colors of the flowers stand out in sharp relief.François is sitting and clipping roses at one of the flower beds. He is an old and deaf, stern Belgian, with long, gray hair. He holds in his mouth an earthen pipe. François is working. He does not hear the tolling of the bells. He is
Author | : Leonid Andreyev |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2020-03-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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The action takes place in Belgium, at the beginning of the war of 1914. The scene represents a garden near the villa of the famous Belgian author, Emil Grelieu. Beyond the tops of low trees, beyond the stone fence which divides Grelieu's estate from the neighboring gardens, are seen the outlines of the red roofs of the houses in the small town, of the Town Hall, and of an ancient church. There the people already know about the war; there the church bells are ringing uneasily, while in the garden there is still peace. A small, splendidly kept flower garden; beautiful and fragrant flowers; shrubbery in bloom; a nook of a hothouse. The glass covers are half open. The sun is shining softly; there is in the air the bluish mist of a warm and quiet day, and all colors seem tenderly soft; only in the foreground the colors of the flowers stand out in sharp relief.François is sitting and clipping roses at one of the flower beds. He is an old and deaf, stern Belgian, with long, gray hair. He holds in his mouth an earthen pipe. François is working. He does not hear the tolling of the bells. He is
Author | : Leonid Andreyev |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Belgium |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Hugo Claus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Belgium |
ISBN | : 9780140097153 |
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Author | : Leonid 1871-1919 Andreyev |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2016-08-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781373511645 |
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Author | : Leonid Andreyev |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-05-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789357967075 |
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