Stefan Hertmans
Autor(a) de War and Turpentine
About the Author
Image credit: Stefan Hertmans in 2010 [credit: Michiel Hendryckx]
Obras de Stefan Hertmans
Ademzuil 5 cópias
Jan Fabre: The Years of the Hour Blue. Drawings & Sculptures 1977-1992 (M Fabre .A4 2012) (2012) 2 cópias
Essays 1 exemplar(es)
Zich de schrijvende vingers branden : over de onmogelijke ethiek van het schrijven (2000) 1 exemplar(es)
Niet onze wang, maar onze blik 1 exemplar(es)
מלחמה וטרפנטין 1 exemplar(es)
Bekeerlinge 1 exemplar(es)
De elfde deur — Autor — 1 exemplar(es)
Marsyas (in GRAND STREET 70 - STEIN) 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
De Nederlandse poëzie van de negentiende en twintigste eeuw in duizend en enige gedichten (1979) — Contribuinte, algumas edições — 193 cópias
The Dedalus Book of Flemish Fantasy (Dedalus European Literary Fantasy Antholgies) (2011) — Contribuinte — 27 cópias
Transit I 1988 : Oostenrijkse lyriek van de twintigste eeuw = Österreichische Lyrik des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts (1989) — Tradutor — 3 cópias
Vlaanderen & Co : poëten in het parlement : bloemlezing 2002 (2002) — Contribuinte, algumas edições — 2 cópias
In het spoor van de raaf : zeventien dichters over een gedicht — Autor, algumas edições — 1 exemplar(es)
Over X-jes, de zandloper en de herenbobbel. Een handleiding tot de kunsten voor Maarten Asscher (1998) — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Hertmans, Stefan
- Data de nascimento
- 1951-03-31
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- België
- Local de nascimento
- Gent, België
- Ocupação
- writer
novelist
essayist
poet - Organizações
- University College Ghent
University of Ghent - Premiações
- Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs (2002)
Vlaamse cultuurprijs voor de Letteren
AKO Literatuurprijs (2014)
Constantijn Huygensprijs (2019)
Membros
Resenhas
Listas
Prêmios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 68
- Also by
- 11
- Membros
- 2,052
- Popularidade
- #12,528
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Resenhas
- 79
- ISBNs
- 155
- Idiomas
- 9
- Favorito
- 1
This book is a poetic novelisation by Flemish Belgian author Stefan Hertmans, of the life of his grandfather, Urbain Martien, who lived from 1891 to 1981. The book has been translated from Dutch, and is based on two notebooks Stefan’s grandfather gave him, containing Urbain’s written recollections of his life especially the time serving in WWI.
Urbain grew up in Ghent at the end of the 19th Century in a poor family, his father working as a church mural painter. Urbain worked as an ironworker, his body scarred by the molten sparks, and painted passionately in his spare time, reproducing works of the masters.
The book shifts between a third person account narrated by Stefan, including his own recollections of his grandfather, then the middle section of the book is a first person account supposedly from Urbain’s diary accounts of the war. The final part shifts back to a third person account of his post-war life, romance, tragic losses, family life and struggles. It is hard to know how much of the account is Urbain’s and how much has been fictionalised, but the writing is beautiful and descriptive. I found the war section most engrossing. It describes the racism of the French officers towards the Flemish soldiers, the muddy horrific life in the trenches, and Urbain’s courage in volunteering for missions no-one else wanted.
The third person sections felt rather jumpy and more awkward. I’m not fond of books with an intrusive narrator, it tends to take me out of the story itself. Nevertheless this was a good read, I liked Urbain as a character, and I enjoyed the contrast between beautiful descriptions of artworks and the ugliness of the war.… (mais)