num_pages: 574
description: According to the author, Chapel Road "is the book about the childhood of Ondine [. . .] about her brother Valeer-Traleer with his monstrous head wobbling through life this way and that." But the book is about a lot more than that. It is also the story of Louis Paul Boon, an author working on a novel entitled Chapel Road, surrounded by his colorful group of friends. His readers and companions include the painter Tippetotje, who habitually works a naked woman into her paintings, and Johan Janssens, the journalist and poet who is fired from the paper for refusing to agree with the Capitalists, the Socialists or the Ultra-Marxists. Beyond that, Chapel Road includes a retelling of the myth of Reynard the fox and Isengrinus the wolf, a tale that underscores the greed, stupidity, hypocrisy, pride and lust motivating the other characters of the book. Chapel Road is "a pool, a sea, a it is the book of all that can be heard and seen in Chapel Road, from the year 1800-and-something until today."
language: German
title: Der Kapellekensweg: Oder der I. illegale Roman von Boontje
titlecomplete: Der Kapellekensweg: Oder der I. illegale Roman von Boontje
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Collections, Modern Classics, Novels, Belgium, Roman, Fiction, Dutch Literature
ratings_count: 1026
series: Kapellekensbaan
publisher: Luchterhand Literaturverlag