Nederlandse Letterkunde - Volume 29, Issue 1, 2024

Abstract The publication of Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s debut novel Voyage au bout de la nuit in October 1932 caused a shock, both in France and abroad. Journalists and critics were confronted with a book that broke with literary and linguistic conventions, and provoked the bourgeois order through a fundamental and uneasy nihilism. This article explores the reception of Céline’s first novel in the French and Dutch press betw Read More

Abstract In the first decade of the twentieth century two Flemish authors visited Paris. The Catholic, lower middle class, countryside-based and unexperienced traveler Stijn Streuvels did so in 1903, the liberal, urban, well-traveled son of a wealthy industrial Cyriel Buysse in 1910. In this contribution the travelogues they published are analyzed and compared by making use of notions and insights from tourism studies: the Read More