Chapel Road
Chapel Road
Author: Louis Paul Boon
Desc: 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 chaos: it is the book of all that can be heard and seen in Chapel Road from the year 1800-and-something until today.