Der Kapellekensweg: Oder der I. illegale Roman von Boontje.

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By (author): "Louis Paul Boon"
Publish Date: 1953
Der Kapellekensweg: Oder der I. illegale Roman von Boontje.
ISBN363087133X
ISBN139783630871332
AsinDer Kapellekensweg: Oder der I. illegale Roman von Boontje.
Original titleDe Kapellekensbaan
SeriesKapellekensbaan #1
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."