Exemplary Stories

Title: Exemplary Stories

Author: HC ten Berge

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789045015903

Condition: Good

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Description:
The poetry of HC ten Berge was awarded the Lucy B. and CW van der Hoogt Prize 1967 and the A. Roland Holstpenning 2003. He received the Multatuli Prize 1987 for the novel Het geheim van een vrolijke sfeer, which was also nominated for the first ako Literature Prize. In 1996 he received the Constantijn Huygens Prize, in 2006 the PC Hooft Prize – both for his entire oeuvre. In 1967 the author founded the magazine Raster, of which he was the sole editor until 1973.

paperback b 19,90
304 pages. 13.5 x 21 cm.
cover design Marjo Starink
isbn 9789045015903 only 301
June

Myths, fairy tales, fables and folk tales have one thing in common: they have to rely on the imagination. Animals and people change shape constantly, but never in nature. The stories collected in this collection are indestructible and do not seem to age. They are by turns witty, bold, fantastic and cruel. The raven is a recurring character, an exemplary deceiver and an incorrigible fool whose self-interest always comes first. Other stories are about a boy who, as a secret incest perpetrator, undergoes a punishment of mythical proportions together with his sister, a hunter in love who swims into the trap of a fatal woman and dies, a marriage that ends on the rocks due to carelessness, a hero who has to pay for a fatal sloppiness – after an exemplary life – with his life. However simple, the content of the stories contains a deeper meaning and significance that is also addressed in this book.
Exemplary Tales consists of 45 stories from the mythical imagination of the far North, as well as some commentaries on the genre they represent. They were chosen from the collections that the author has collected and published since the 1970s.

HC ten Berge Exemplary stories (and their veiled meaning)
Rich anthology from the mythical imagination of the far North

About previous stories about the far North:
'Sometimes grandiose stories, with lots of humor, lots of divine pranks, sometimes fascinating intrigues and special endings.' – Kees Fens, de Volkskrant