Willem Elsschot

Title: Willem Elsschot

Writer: Nico ter Linden

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789038894195

Condition: Good

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Description:
`Writing replaces faith, which I completely lack,' the Flemish writer Willem Elsschot once said. Should we take his word for it? After all, anyone who delves into his work will discover that he is constantly occupied with faith, from the first pages he wrote to the last. But what does that faith, that `total disbelief of Elsschot look like? This book seeks to answer that question. Nico ter Linden on Willem Elsschot: two searching souls Priests anoint and promise, but I cannot believe it. No, there is no turning back: when we are dead it is over. Willem Elsschot, fragment from the poem `Spijt, Collected works, Amsterdam: Em. Querido, 1976