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The undisputed precursor of the Flemish experiments after the Second World War bears witness to his mastery. The elaborate epic poem "The Sign of the Hamster" shows a poet who illustrates an extreme closeness in an extremely compressed language, full of associative connections. Claus also achieves this unity through the baroque imagery, his numerous assonances, allitterations and wordplay. He plays with the language in an abundance of words, but also with a mastery of the métier, which requires all the attention and concentration of the reader. Unchanged text of the earlier 1963 publication in "Gedichten". Draftsman Vanriet proves with 27 watercolors and drawings that he can do more than tracing and coloring film stills, as in the comparable Thomas Mann edition
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