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A review by willemvdz
Het leven is vurrukkulluk by Remco Campert
3.0
REREAD
Started reading this in between Een Schitterend Gebrek only to get bored with it rather quickly. I had already read it once back in high school and only fondly remembered the playfulness of Campert's writing, but I now realized that a lot of the book's 60s anti-establishment, Alice-in-Wonderland-like nonsense also is its greatest weakness. The structureless nature is fun now and then but it also makes for a rather unpleasant reading experience where style can change from one sentence to the next. And with so many characters in such a short little book, that might be a bit too much for its own good. And then there are some sexual and societal norms that haven't quite aged as gracefully as its unique prose has...
Started reading this in between Een Schitterend Gebrek only to get bored with it rather quickly. I had already read it once back in high school and only fondly remembered the playfulness of Campert's writing, but I now realized that a lot of the book's 60s anti-establishment, Alice-in-Wonderland-like nonsense also is its greatest weakness. The structureless nature is fun now and then but it also makes for a rather unpleasant reading experience where style can change from one sentence to the next. And with so many characters in such a short little book, that might be a bit too much for its own good. And then there are some sexual and societal norms that haven't quite aged as gracefully as its unique prose has...