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- Author: Claus Hugo
- Publisher: Naklada Ljevak d.o.o.
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- Condition: New book
- Code: 79463
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Claus Hugo
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Hugo Claus: Astonishment
The teacher VictorDenijs de Rijckel lives in the West Flanders city of Ostend and one evening he visits the Ball of the White Rabbit, where the beauty Alessandra Harmedam intrigues him so much that he wants to visit her tomorrow at her castle Almout in Hekegem, in the company of Albert Verzele's student. In the castle, he meets a group of admirers of the missing SS man JanWillem Crabbe who have gathered at a meeting of the Nazi association Verdinaso, where they confuse VictorDenijs de Rijckel with the Flemish nationalist Dr. Richard Harmedam. In the meantime, de Rijckel and Alessandra embarked on a love affair...
When his fourth novel Amazement was published in October 1962, Hugo Claus, then a well-known thirty-three-year-old artist, would state that Amazement was actually his first real novel. He has been preparing a novel for a long time about the fates of collaborators and traitors to the country in liberated Belgium. He studied in detail the material on Belgian collaborationism, the battles on the Eastern Front, the social life and habits of former SS soldiers and veterans from the Eastern Front, and of course Nazism in general. The Claus family itself was stigmatized as collaborationist, and Hugo Claus was also followed by the voice of Nazi fanatics in his early youth.
Criticism today considers Amazement a classic of modern Flemish literature – and sometimes the Flemish literary answer to Ulysses by James Joyce due to its complex fourfold narrative structure.
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- Author: Claus Hugo
- Publisher: Naklada Ljevak d.o.o.
- Year of publication:2024
- Place of publication:Zagreb
- Pages:328
- Dimensions:14.5x21.5 cm
- Script:Latin script
- Condition:New book
- Binding:Hardcover
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