| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| Streuvels, Stijn |
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(st n strö´v ls) (KEY) , pseud. of Frank Lateur (frängk lätör´) (KEY) , 1871–1969, Flemish novelist and short-story writer; nephew of Guido Gezelle. Streuvels’s works are realistic, moving portrayals of everyday life. His early novels show the influence of Russian fatalism; De Vlaschaard (1907), his masterpiece, strikes a more optimistic note. The short-story collection The Path of Life (1899, tr. 1915), the novels Old Jan (1902, tr. 1936) and Werkmenschen (1927), and an autobiography (1966) are among his other works. |
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