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Synopsis. Belgium, 1939. Louis Seynaeve, who becomes eleven in April, goes to a boarding school led by nuns in Haarbeke, a fictitious town close to Kortrijk. Louis has a lot of fantasies. He and his friends call themselves the Four Apostles and they possess seven forbidden books.
- Hugo Claus
- 1983
The Sorrow of Belgium is a major novel first published in 1983 by the Belgian author Hugo Claus. It is widely considered Claus' major work and the most important Dutch-language novel of the twentieth century.
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A long novel that depicts the hypocrisy and pettiness of Flemish Belgians during World War II and the post-war period. It follows the life and development of Louis, a teenage boy who joins the Flemish nationalist movement and becomes a writer.
"The Sorrow of Belgium" is a coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of World War II. The narrative follows the life of a young boy in a Flemish town, as he navigates through the complexities of adolescence, family relationships, and the harsh realities of war.
The Sorrow of Belgium. by Hugo Claus. Recommendations from our site. “This complicated novel which operates at all sorts of different levels, but might be most simply described as a coming-of-age novel.
Jun 24, 2011 · The sorrow of Belgium. by. Claus, Hugo, 1929-2008. Publication date. 1990. Topics. World War, 1939-1945. Publisher. New York : Pantheon Books.
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.
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