Summer in Termuren - (Netherlandic Literature) by Louis Paul Boon (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This, the author writes, is the novel of the individual in a world of barbarians. It is the story of Ondine and Oscarke, a young married couple adrift in a Belgian landscape that is darkening under the spread of industry and World War I. Ondine, who came to serve god and live, finds that she must serve the gentlemen instead. Oscarke, an aspiring sculptor, finds himself unsuccessfully scouring Brussels for work and, when he is finally hired, too tired to make his own art. They grow old and their four children grow up as technology and mechanization, unemployment, fascism, and war take over around them. War destroys their attempts to establish a better life, which they seek continually and against all odds. And the chapters about these characters, some of whom first appeared in Chapel Road, alternate with chapters about Boon himself, who describes the impossibility of modern life and the destruction of war. As this wide-ranging novel progresses, the author's struggles--both with writing and with his own life--come more and more to resemble those of his characters.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><P>Louis Paul Boon was a Flemish novelist and competes with Hugo Claus only for the title of most important twentieth-century Flemish writer in the Dutch language.
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