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by Gerard Walschap Translated by Adrienne Dixon Original title: Een mens van goede wil
In the 1930s Gerard Walschap’s controversial, briskly paced, unsentimental narratives did much to revolutionise the Flemish novel. The Man Who Meant Well has come to enjoy the status of a classic, but it has lost none of its original vigour. (more...)
by Gerard Walschap Translated by Alex Brotherton Original title: Trouwen / Celibaat
The rather pointless retitling of the second of these two short novels (which should be called Celibacy) hides the fact that they are meant to be companion novels. They were written within a year of each other (1933 and 1934) and both deal with the reformation of virtual monsters. (more...)
