Summer in Termuren
Summer in Termuren This, the author writes, is "the novel of the indiviual in a world of barbarians." It is the story of Ondine and Oscarke, a young married couple adrift in a Belgian landscape that…
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Summer in Termuren
This, the author writes, is "the novel of the indiviual in a world of barbarians." It is the story of Ondine and Oscarke, a young married couple adrift in a Belgian landscape that is darkening under the spread of industry and World War I. Oscarke, an aspiring sculptor, finds himself unsuccessfully scouring Brussels for work and, when he is finally hired, too tired to make his own art. Ondine, who "came to serve god and live," finds that she must "serve the gentlemen" instead.
War destroys their attempts to establish a better life, which they seek continually and against all odds. They grow old and their four children grow up as "technology and mechanization, unemployment, fascism, and war" take over around them. And the chapters about these characters, some of whom first appeared in Chapel Road, alternate with chapters about Boon himself, who describes the impossibility of modern life and the destruction of war.
As this wide-ranging novel progresses, the author's struggles -- both with writing and with his own life -- come more and more to resemble those of his characters.
Summer in Termuren
Summer in February
Voices in Summer
Light in Summer
Sometime in Summer
Summer in Greece
Summer in Mara
Summer in Mara
Summer In Mara
Summer in the Forest
One Summer in Crete
Last Summer in the City
Last Summer in the City