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Author | Ernest Claes |
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Language | Flemish |
Publisher | Kompas |
Publication date | 1923 |
Publication place | Belgium |
De vulgaire geschiedenis van Charelke Dop, (The vulgar history of Charelke Dop), is a novel written by Ernest Claes in 1923. [1] [2]
It is World War I. Charelke Dop lives in the Belgian municipality Diest. [3] He pretends to be poor but is rather rich. After his wife Angelina dies he moves to Brussels. Charelke is a manipulative, lying, stingy, immoral but charming widower. He earns a lot of money by declaring people to the German soldiers although he is a smuggler, traitor and blackmailer. He convinces highly placed Belgians that he performed acts of valour (whilst it were only misdeeds) and thus receives medals of honour and an accompanying ceremony. [4]
The book was adapted for screen in a miniserie of two episodes in 1985 by the Belgian national television station BRT.
![]() | The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's
notability guideline for books. (October 2020) |
![]() Book cover of the third print, 1928 | |
Author | Ernest Claes |
---|---|
Language | Flemish |
Publisher | Kompas |
Publication date | 1923 |
Publication place | Belgium |
De vulgaire geschiedenis van Charelke Dop, (The vulgar history of Charelke Dop), is a novel written by Ernest Claes in 1923. [1] [2]
It is World War I. Charelke Dop lives in the Belgian municipality Diest. [3] He pretends to be poor but is rather rich. After his wife Angelina dies he moves to Brussels. Charelke is a manipulative, lying, stingy, immoral but charming widower. He earns a lot of money by declaring people to the German soldiers although he is a smuggler, traitor and blackmailer. He convinces highly placed Belgians that he performed acts of valour (whilst it were only misdeeds) and thus receives medals of honour and an accompanying ceremony. [4]
The book was adapted for screen in a miniserie of two episodes in 1985 by the Belgian national television station BRT.