{"id":37655,"date":"2020-03-24T14:44:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T13:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/?page_id=37655"},"modified":"2020-03-24T15:07:12","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T14:07:12","slug":"hugo-claus-a-gentle-destruction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/foreignrights\/authors\/hugo-claus\/hugo-claus-a-gentle-destruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Claus &#8211; A Gentle Destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Previously published in<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Spain (Catalan translation)<\/li>\n<li>Denmark<\/li>\n<li>France<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>About the book<\/h3>\n<p>The start of the 1950s. Andr\u00e9, the narrator of <em>A Gentle Destruction<\/em>, meets Sabine de Comptine d\u2019Aarselaer, a woman who unites beauty with passion. He follows her from Ghent to Paris, where he eventually lands in the Flemish-Dutch artists\u2019 colony, an environment Hugo Claus describes sometimes satirically, sometimes movingly, though always flawlessly.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018Iris, who is divorced from her engineer, lived for four weeks in my farmer\u2019s hut. She bought the bedroom curtains and hung them up. A few times she danced in her underwear in the orchard. She thought I looked like her ex-husband. But young. She cut my toenails. And one morning she was nowhere to be found. Five hundred francs lay on the table underneath an ashtray overflowing with her English cigarettes, along with a letter: \u2018You don\u2019t love me. You don\u2019t love anyone. I can\u2019t take it.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previously published in Spain (Catalan translation) Denmark France About the book The start of the 1950s. Andr\u00e9, the narrator of A Gentle Destruction, meets Sabine de Comptine d\u2019Aarselaer, a woman who unites beauty with passion. He follows her from Ghent to Paris, where he eventually lands in the Flemish-Dutch artists\u2019 colony, an environment Hugo Claus&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1135,"featured_media":37935,"parent":17591,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-37655","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37655\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/37935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}