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Slaap! by Annelies Verbeke
Slaap! by Annelies Verbeke












Slaap! by Annelies Verbeke

And what seemed to be a promising beginning turns into another peace of modern writing without any specific aim and meaning. But then something switches on or even off and the idea changes or is lost, or writer just to have to finish a book quickly, or the writer become bored, or whatever. In a lot of cases idea is even really good. (Have to admit - I am definitely among this audience as well) Now turning to stream of consciousness - seems in the beginning there is some idea behind the moment when a writer opens word file or wherever he or she writes. The sense of positiveness we could transfer on real life. Why? Because for the audience it is necessary to be some love story with happy end, it doesn't matter much how great is this happy end or if it is clearly shown, we just have to get an impression of hope that everything is going to end "good". In 2012, together with Sanneke van Hassel, she put together a substantial anthology of international stories called Naar de stad (To the City, 2012), and in 2013, in cooperation with artist Klaas Verplancke, she published the novella Tirol inferno, written in iambic pentameter.Many of modern writers are somewhere between stream of consciousness and romance in its classical sense. It is made up of fifteen stories linked by both subject and characters, about people who think they know more than they really do. Her short-story collection Veronderstellingen (Assumptions, 2012) was extremely well-received and was nominated for the BNG New Literature Prize. Verbeke also writes columns, film scripts, and plays, and has a great love of short stories. Her most recent novel, Vissen redden (Saving Fish, 2009), was nominated for several literary awards. Her second novel, Reus (Giant, 2006), and her collection of short stories Groener gras (Greener Grass, 2007) attracted widespread attention with their surprising realism and light yet bizarre and absurd humor. 1976, Belgium) became famous overnight with her successful first novel Slaap! (Sleep!, 2003).














Slaap! by Annelies Verbeke