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Document Details : Title: Een verbeelde leemte Subtitle: Over Frans Kellendonk Author(s): ROVERS, Daniël Journal: Spiegel der Letteren Volume: 49 Issue: 3 Date: 2007 Pages: 285-308 DOI: 10.2143/SDL.49.3.2025296 Abstract : Frans Kellendonk’s entire oeuvre rests on a longing for community, and it is the design of that longing which will be looked at closely in this article. The author’s first three novellas can be seen as a detached research into literature’s community-founding possibilities. In his last novel, Mystiek lichaam [Mystical Body], Kellendonk focuses mainly on that which stands in the way of community: the so-called ‘drive for distinction’. In this novel, the author ‘speaks his mind’ – in a highly ironic fashion. Drawing on the anti-psychological, satirical tradition of Wyndham Lewis, he develops the void he experienced in contemporary society. In doing so, Kellendonk shows himself to be a neoconservative with immaculate stylistic skills. |
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