Belgium

Books set in Belgium.

Canticle
Het geschenk
Psychopompe
El libro de las hermanas
Wolf
33 Place Brugmann
Code Name Sapphire
Premier sang
The White Lady
When the World Goes Quiet
De eerlijke vinder
Paradis perdus (La traversée des temps, #1)
A Certain Darkness (Verity Kent, #6)
Autobiografie van mijn lichaam
Dius
I Who Have Never Known Men
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Stupeur et tremblements
War and Turpentine
Het verdriet van België
Bruges-La-Morte
The Lady and the Unicorn
On Black Sisters Street
Memoirs of Hadrian
De helaasheid der dingen
The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By
Dirty Snow
Tintin in Tibet (Tintin #20)
De engelenmaker
Kaas

In Brussels between 1909 and 1914, Louis Mascré sculpted away for Belgium’s Royal Academy of Science, creating a plaster cranium, a mother and child, the upper body of an elder. At a time when Belgium was brutalizing the Congo, the country’s Royal Academy compared Africans to apes and also depicted Neanderthals as simian rather than caveman-like.
Stefanos Geroulanos, The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins

Hugo Claus
I am a great admirer of Leopold II, although I think that he should be destroyed in the memory of mankind and reduced to the state in which I presented him in my play, namely a dirty goblin who as soon as he does something of any interest must be raised in order to become a fully-fledged human being.
Hugo Claus

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