Author: BEEKMAN, E. M
Title: HOMEOPATHY OF THE ABSURD - The Grotesque in PAUL VAN OSTAIJEN'S creative prose.
Description: The Hague - Paris, Martinus Nijhoff, 1970. 1st edition. Paperback / ingenaaid, 24cmx16cm, Net exempaar. 'Bibliotheca Neerlandica Exta Muros' - I. Frontispice-portrait of van Ostaijen. With perception- theories of Roman Jacobson, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Barchelard. Contents: I). A labyrinth for our times. II). Unity of theme: a topography of the grotesque. 1). The world of van Ostaijen's grotesques: syphilization. 2). Strata of the grotesque world. 3). The grotesque as a morbidly sexual universe. 4). A grotesque democracy. 5). A grotesque with a difference: the rebellion of Josef la Tour. III). The style of the grotesque - a description of linguistic subversion. 1). Anarrative narrations. 2). Syntax as meaning. 3). Arguments of absurdity. 4). Language as a game of destruction. 5). Ludic language. IV). The final phase - van Ostaijen's lyrical prose as a language of perception. 1). Metonymic art: Roman Jacobson and Paul van Ostaijen. 2). Phenomenology: The adventure of consciousness. 3). Franz Kafka and Paul van Ostaijen. 4). Kandinsky's theory and van Ostaijen's poëmata. 5). Phenomenological 'poëmata'. With appendices, chronology of van Ostaijen's creative prose, bibliography and notes. X + 196 pag.

Keywords: kandinsky merleau-ponty bachelard


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