My Little War
Published on 18. February 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
125 pages
978-1-56478-558-9 (ISBN)
Description
Following in the footsteps of Celine and Joyce, and anticipating the gritty worldview of Burroughs and Bukowski . . .
Reviews / Votes
"His blitz technique produces its strangest effects in this little journal from the war and the post-war period, which booms crazily, as if Boon's typewriter had been rattling away like a machine gun."-R. F. LissensMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Normal, IL
United States
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 204 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
172 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56478-558-9 (9781564785589)
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Persons
Louis Paul Boon's (1912-1979) oeuvre spans several genres, including historical epics, newspaper columns, and scabrous novels such as Chapel Road and Summer in Termuren. Paul Vincent is an award-winning translator of Dutch literature whose translation of Hendrik Marsman's Herinnering aan Holland earned the David Reid Poetry Translation Prize.