Hugo Claus

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Claus, Hugo

Born Apr. 5, 1929, in Bruges. Belgian writer. Writes in Flemish.

Claus, an avant-gardist, is the founder and editor of the magazine Tijd en mens (from 1949). His poetry, permeated with refined eroticism and gloomy symbolism, reflects the anarchic protest of the individual who is unable to deal with the chaos of his environment—for example, the poetry cycles The House on the Boundary Between Night and Morning (1953), The Oostakker Poems (1955), and Thorns (1955). Claus’ novel The Metsires Family (1950) is a naturalistic account of the degradation of a peasant family. The novel At Summer’s Peak (1952) is about a youthful search for the meaning of life. The self-analysis of a mental patient is the basis of the novel Astonishment (1962). Claus’ naturalistic novels— From Nature (1954), Sugar (1958), and Chief of a Black Tribe (1959)—have specific social themes, imbued with the idea of struggle for moral purity.

Claus is the author of the psychological drama Bride in the Morning (1955), the romantic melodrama The Song of a Killer (1957), and a parody on subjects treated in his own works, The Heron’s Dance (1962). His plays and dramatizations Thyl Ulen-spiegel (1965), Eldorado (1966), Thyestes (1966, based on the tragedy by Seneca the Younger), The Jester (1968), and A Tooth for a Tooth (1970) are anti-imperialistic in tone.

WORKS

In Russian translation:
[Rasskazy.] In the collection Rasskazy bel’giiskikh pisatelei. Moscow, 1968.

REFERENCES

Rutten, M. Nederlandse dichtkunst van Kloos tot Claus. Hasselt, 1957.
Dinaux, C. J. E. Gegist bestek, vol. 2. ’s-Gravenhage [1962].
Moderne encyclopedie der wereldliteratuur, vol. 2. Ghent, 1964.
Weisgerberg, J. Hugo Claus: Experiment en traditie. Leiden [1970].

S. A. MIRONOV

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Die implikasie hiervan word goed in die motto van Hugo Claus tot die slotafdeling ("Beseringstyd") van Stil punt van die aarde opgesom: "Hoe dichter de dichters bij hun sterven geraken/ Des te grimmiger kermen zij naar de sterren."

Stil punt van die aarde

In this context, the filmic adaptation of Conscience's 1838 novel De Leeuw van Vlaanderen of de Slag der Gulden Sporen (The Lion of Flanders or the Battle of the Spurs) by Hugo Claus was conceived as a spectacular medieval epic that would serve as a concluding memorial showpiece.

Conscience's De Leeuw van Vlaanderen (The Lion of Flanders) and its adaptation to film by Claus

De duve, who won the Nobel Prize for cancer research in 1974, was the second famous Belgian who chose mercy killing as a way to die, following in the footsteps of writer Hugo Claus, who died in similar circumstances in 2008, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.

Belgian Nobel laureate commits euthanasia

She left her lover, Dutch author Hugo Claus - by whom h h d A h f ff i i h she had son Arthur - for an affair with actor Ian McShane.

The director asked me to strip, it was no problem .. I took my clothes off and carried on smoking - SYLVIA ON HER AUDITION; EMMANUELLE STAR DIES AGED 60

The Sacrament and Other Plays of Forbidden Love by Hugo Claus

One of the primary revelations that emerged was the way in which Cobra artists and poets were likewise transient, consistently changing places and media to striking effect: Witness painter Appel's bestial sculptures, poet Hugo Claus's paintings, poet Dotremont's "word paintings," painter Corneille's ceramics.

Cobra: Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels/Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Amstelveen, the Netherlands/Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, the Netherlands

The possibility that Hugo Claus's Het verdriet van Belgie (The Sorrow of Belgium), the seminal novel of modern Flemish identity, is predicated on Grass's Blechtrommel is introduced, and then we are told there is no space now to discuss it.

Der oft steinige Weg zum Erfolg: Literatur aus Deutschlandim niederlandischen Sprachraum 1900-2000

Toewaaisand herinner in baie opsigte aan De Metsiers van Hugo Claus (1950)--ook 'n kort, kriptiese, maar gelade teks wat handel oor 'n klein groepie mense wat geisoleer is van hul omringende sosiale omgewing.

Woestynruimte en die onkenbaarheid van mens en werklikheid

This novella by Hugo Claus, Belgium's most famous contemporary writer, partly accomplishes what it sets out to do, which is to show the creating and destroying power of an iconoclastic Christ in a rural Belgian town where religious zeal barely exists.

The Swordfish

Hugo Claus (1929-2008), gedoodverfd Nobelprijs-kandidaat en laureaat van de prestigieuze Europese Aristeion-prijs (naast Cees Nooteboom, Herta Muller, Salman Rushdie, en Christoph Ransmayr), schrijver en schilder, theaterregisseur en cineast, was de auteur van een stilistisch bijzonder rijk geschakeerd en omvangrijk literair oeuvre.

An appeal for a more scientifically documented variant edition of Hugo Claus' collected poetry/Hugo Claus als meervoud. Pleidooi voor een wetenschappelijke documentaire varianteneditie van Claus' verzamelde poezie

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