{"id":27746,"title":"Dodemanskamer","dimensions":"20 x 12.5 cm, 335 p., language : Nederlands, publisher : Uitgeverij Kritak, Leuven, ISBN : 90-6303-509-8","date_begin":"1993-01-01","material":"ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":141,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp ","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2030/854","stream_count_app":8,"permalink":"dodemanskamer","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/063/660/medium_500/20201023115517189_0001.jpg?1603447829","cached_actor_names":"Pjeroo Roobjee","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Artist Novel","nl":"Artist Novel","fr":"Artist Novel"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/063/660/large/20201023115517189_0001.jpg?1603447829","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont\u003eIn the first instance, \u003cem\u003eDodemanskamer\u003c/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eDead Man\u0026#39;s Room\u003c/em\u003e) can be read as an epic story, like the story of an odyssey.\u0026nbsp;The myth of that journey develops within a sliding fresco, the fiercely shimmering wallpaper of an era that had only just survived a world war.\u0026nbsp;In the second instance, \u003cem\u003eDodemanskamer\u003c/em\u003e is the capture of a mythical Flanders \u0026ndash;\u0026nbsp;containing the brooding, black, hilarant, surreal looking souls of that shire \u0026ndash;\u0026nbsp;at the time of Boudewijn\u0026#39;s first crown years.\u0026nbsp;Anyone who digs deeper and ends up behind the picaresque\u0026nbsp;narrative plot\u0026nbsp;will be able to indulge in winks, references, quotations, \u0026#39;worlds of literature\u0026#39; \u0026ndash;\u0026nbsp;because this novel is about writing, about the morality of the writing beast, \u0026#39;the writer beast\u0026#39;, about the stratification of language,\u0026nbsp;\u003c/font\u003e\u003cfont\u003ethe use of that stratification, the suggestive power and how the use of \u0026#39;different languages ​​and styles\u0026#39; must be inextricably linked with the hundreds of thin veins into which the diversity of emotions is pumped.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/font\u003e\u003cfont\u003eFurthermore, this novel has on all fronts to do with the quest, the Bildungsroman (albeit with rather counterproductive initiation rituals), the grotesque, with the number of visions of the fin-de-si\u0026egrave;cle, with apocalypticism, mysticism, longing, magic, paganism, devotion, allegory, brutal purity and (self) destruction.\u0026nbsp;Ultimately, \u003cem\u003eDodemanskamer\u003c/em\u003e has everything to do with the time in which we live today and with the kabbalah of Pjeroo Roobjee\u0026#39;s demons.\u0026nbsp;It is not possible to explain this.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/font\u003e\u003cfont\u003eSome secrets are from the grave and must stay there.\u003c/font\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":3546,"name":"Pjeroo Roobjee","category":{"en":"Author","nl":"Auteur","fr":"Auteur"}}]}