Summer in Termuren

Informationen zum Autor P. C. Evans is a poet and a translator of Dutch plays, two of which have been  staged by Kevin Spacey at the Old Vic Threatre in London. Paul Vincent is the translator of  more than a dozen works of Dutch fiction. Klappentext This, the author writes, is "the novel of the individual in a world of barbarians." It is the story of Ondine and Oscarke, a young married couple adrift in a Belgian landscape that is darkening under the spread of industry. Ondine, who "came to serve god and live," finds that she must "serve the gentlemen" instead. Oscarke, an aspiring sculptor, finds himself unsuccessfully scouring Brussels for work and, when he is finally hired, too tired to make his own art. They grow old and their four children grow up as "technology and mechanization, unemployment, fascism, and war" take over around them. But the chapters about these characters, some of whom first appeared in Zusammenfassung Presents a story of Ondine and Oscarke, a young married couple adrift in a Belgian landscape that is darkening under the spread of industry and World War I. Ondine, who "came to serve god and live," finds that she must "serve the gentlemen" instead. Oscarke, an aspiring sculptor, finds himself unsuccessfully scouring Brussels for work.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Louis Boon, Louis Paul Boon
• Con la collaborazione di: Paul Vincent (Traduzione)
• Editore: Dalkey Archive Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 01.09.2006
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi
• EAN: 9781564784148
• ISBN: 978-1-56478-414-8
• Numero di pagine: 488
• Serie: Netherlandic Literature; Netherlandic Literature