Chapel Road - Softcover

Boon, Louis Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564782859 ISBN 13: 9781564782854

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, 2003

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Adrienne Dixon was the translator of numerous Dutch books.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Dutch

About this edition

• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1564782859
• ISBN 13: 9781564782854
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 338