The Sorrow of Belgium
novel by Claus
Also known as: “Het verdriet van België”
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Belgian literature
- In Belgian literature: After World War II
…Het verdriet van België (1983; The Sorrow of Belgium), paints an unflattering portrait of a Flemish collaborationist family in the years before, during, and after World War II, but it is also a Bildungsroman about a wayward adolescent who decides to become a writer.
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discussed in biography
- In Hugo Claus
…Het verdriet van België (1983; The Sorrow of Belgium), which drew on Claus’s own experience as a youth during the Nazi occupation. The dense, poetic work brought scrutiny to the morally suspect attitude of Flemish society toward Nazi treatment of Belgian Jews, nearly half of whom were exterminated during the…
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