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De helaasheid der dingen

Dimitri Verhulst

Paperback | Pages: 207 pages

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Original Title:	De helaasheid der dingen
ISBN:	9025427731 (ISBN13: 9789025427733)
Edition Language:	Dutch
Setting:	Reetveerdegem(Belgium) Belgium
Literary Awards:	Gouden Uil for Publieksprijs (2007), Humo's Gouden Bladwijzer (2007), AKO / ECI Literatuurprijs Nominee (2006), De Inktaap (2008), Vondel Prize for David Colmer (2013)

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In De helaasheid der dingen keert de schrijver terug naar zijn geboortegrond in Reetveerdegem. We maken kennis met zijn vader, Pierre, die zijn paar uur oude zoontje in een postzak op zijn fiets langs alle kroegen van het dorp rijdt om hem aan zijn vrienden te tonen; zijn grootmoeder, wier nachtrust al te vaak verstoord wordt door de politie als die weer eens een van haar dronken zonen thuis komt afleveren: en niet te vergeten de werkloze nonkels Potrel, Witten en Zwaren, voor wie een wereldkampioenschap zuipen het hoogst haalbare is en die leven volgens het adagium 'God schiep de dag en wij slepen ons erdoorheen'. De helaasheid der dingen is zowel een gevoelig ode aan als een hilarische afrekening met het dorp van een jeugd.

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Title	:	De helaasheid der dingen
Author	:	Dimitri Verhulst
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 207 pages
Published	:	2006 by Contact
Categories	:	Fiction. European Literature. Dutch Literature

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Every third novel nowadays seems to have a dysfunctional family at its core. So indeed does The Misfortunates by Belgian author Dimitri Verhulst. But on second thoughts, I'm not so sure that the family we're concerned with here should be tagged with that particular label. Although they are undoubtedly comfortably installed at the very lowest rung of society and not in any hurry to ascend the ladder any time soon --held back by constant inebriation, sloth and a regrettable tendency to fix

I saw the movie years ago, only now I read the book. I was quite excited about the film, certainly about the beautiful imagery, the visual reconstruction of a marginal environment in the 1970s in rural Flanders. It made me think of my own youth; not that it was as marginal and squalid as in the Verhulst family, but it came close. The renewed acquaintance through the book was less successful: some scenes (such as the Roy Orbinson reunion at the home of an Iranian refugee couple) were as hilarious

It's a book about men behaving very badly.Dimitri lives with his father and three uncles. They all live with their mother after having failed relationships. The men are serious, serious drinkers who do nothing with their lives except drink, womanise and fight people who have the temerity to insult them or their family. They eat nothing but raw mince and sardines, they are unclean and have no respect for anyone except themselves.It's a book of short stories, or episodes in Dimitri's life and the

I'm incredibly curious to know which parts of this semi-autobiographical novel are the actual biographical parts and which are made up, because I feel like this is the kind of story that's either all fake or all real. I had a really hard time figuring out which parts of the book I thought were too far fetched to be real. But then, the more I thought about it the more I considered the idea that the parts that seemed too unrealistic were actually the ones that were real. And that the parts that

If you have ever wondered why the anonymous seventeenth century author of "Three Moneths Observations of the Lowe Countries" referred to them as "the buttocks of the world" this book will explain everything. I was reminded of this bilious quote because the Verhulst family, the central characters of this book, live in the back-of-beyond village of Arsendegen, which I assume that the author has made up along with the other extraordinary events that form the plot.If it is not made up, even if it is

As I read this I kept thinking it was a memoir not a novel. I also kept thinking oh my god, no! A child can not be raised like this and survive. Despite that thought, I was laughing but disgusted for doing so. What a talent! In fact, this needs three and a half stars at least.

The fact that this is an autobiography makes it on one side a little better, but on the other side even more saddening than it was already.