Chapel Road
of Louis Paul Boon, Adrienne Dixon (Translator)
Series: Kapellekensbaan #1
Description
According to the author, Chapel Road is the book about the childhood of Ondine [. . .] about her brother Valeer-Traleer with his monstrous head wobbling through life this way and that. But the book is about a lot more than that. It is also the story of Louis Paul Boon, an author working on a novel entitled Chapel Road, surrounded by his colorful group of friends. His readers and companions include the painter Tippetotje, who habitually works a naked woman into her paintings, and Johan Janssens, the journalist and poet who is fired from the paper for refusing to agree with the Capitalists, the Socialists or the Ultra-Marxists. Beyond that, Chapel Road includes a retelling of the myth of Reynard the fox and Isengrinus the wolf, a tale that underscores the greed, stupidity, hypocrisy, pride and lust motivating the other characters of the book. Chapel Road is a pool, a sea, a chaos: it is the book of all that can be heard and seen in Chapel Road, from the year 1800-and-something until today.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 338 pages
- Publisher Dalkey Archive Press
- Publication Date February 1st 2003
- First Publication 10/29/53
- Language English
- ISBN 9781564782854
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
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