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", is a bildungsroman which explores themes around politics and … See more Hugo Claus was born in Bruges, West Flanders in 1929. He grew up in a Catholic milieu and was educated at a boarding school. He was eleven at the time of the German invasion of Belgium. Under the German occupation, … See more • Louis Seynaeve is the protagonist, a Belgian youth who is an alter ego of the author • Staf Seynaeve is Louis' father, a printer and a Flemish nationalist with pro-Nazi sympathies. See more • The Assault (1982) by Harry Mulisch • My Little War (1947) by Louis Paul Boon See more Belgium, 1939. Louis Seynaeve, who becomes eleven in April, goes to a boarding school led by nuns in Haarbeke, a fictitious town close to See more Wim Hazeu in Hervormd Nederland: "After Claus probably no one in our Sprachraum will be able to write such a big and in many views great book about Belgium in wartime. He's the … See more • (in Dutch) Het Verdriet Van België at University of Utrecht • (in Dutch) Het verdriet van België at Literatuurgeschiedenis.nl See more WebThe monumental novel ‘The Sorrow of Belgium’ is set in the late 1930s and World War II. It focuses on the young Louis Seynaeve, who tries to escape from a Flemish petit-bourgeois …
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WebHet verdriet van België (1983; The Sorrow of Belgium ), paints an unflattering portrait of a Flemish collaborationist family in the years before, during, and after World War II, but it is … WebThe social history of liberation Europe remains a largely unexplored field. This is peculiar, and in many respects illogical. The events of the mid-1940s, and in particular the unregulated conflicts which characterized the often lengthy transitions from foreign occupation to political normalization, created an environment in which the sinews of … taryn lazroff
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WebIn 1939, Louis Seynaeve, a ten-year-old Flemish student, is chiefly occupied with schoolboy adventures and lurid adolescent fantasies. Then the Nazis invade Belgium, and he grows … WebAug 18, 2010 · The sorrow of Belgium by Hugo Claus, 1990, Viking edition, in English WebThe sorrow of Belgium by Claus, Hugo, 1929-2008. Publication date 1991 Topics Classic fiction, Modern fiction, Claus, Hugo - Prose & Criticism, Fiction / General, Literature: Classics, World War (1939-1945), World War, 1939-1945, Dutch fiction Publisher Penguin Collection taryn lee griffith