Novel
Mijn woningen
Not translated into English
Raymond Brulez · 1955
Synopsis
A narrator tells his life through the houses he has lived in, in four volumes of fictionalised memoirs. The first opens in Borgen, the name he gives to his native town on the coast, in the hotel his parents ran; the other three bear the titles of the pact of the triumvirs, of the harbour and of the miracle of the roses. Together they form a chronicle of half a century of social, political, religious, cultural and sentimental life in Flanders, up to the Second World War, viewed with scepticism and irony.
Context
The four volumes were published by Meulenhoff, in Amsterdam, from 1950 to 1954, and the first earned the author the triennial State Prize for narrative prose. The public's reception remained reserved. Britannica regards these fictionalised memoirs as his major work, and Gent leest sees in them a free view of Flemish intellectual life, from around 1900 to 1945, in which fact mingles with imagination. The whole, more than eight hundred pages, was reissued in 1986.
Who it is for
A long cycle of fictionalised memoirs, in Dutch, in an ornate and ironic prose; no translation found.
Prizes and reception
Its author's major work according to Britannica, awarded a State prize from its first volume.
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