Chapel Road
Louis Paul Boon
(Author)
Adrienne Dixon
(Translator)
Description
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.Product Details
Price
$14.95
$13.90
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Publish Date
February 01, 2003
Pages
338
Dimensions
5.52 X 8.6 X 0.97 inches | 0.01 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781564782854
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About the Author
Adrienne Dixon was the translator of numerous Dutch books.