He's the author of "The Sorrow", the first part of the novel. Gradually he becomes aware of the narrow-mindedness of his family and his education. Louis discovers more "forbidden books" and becomes interested in Entartete Kunst. Louis attends meetings of the Hitler Youth in Mecklenburg. During the German occupation of Belgium in the Second World War his family sympathises with the Germans. Louis' father buys a printing press in Germany and a Hitler Youth doll. His family members are Flemish nationalists.
Several months later the baby is stillborn. His father comes to tell him that his mother fell down the stairs, which actually means that she is pregnant. He and his friends call themselves the Four Apostles and they possess seven forbidden books. Louis Seynaeve, who becomes eleven in April, goes to a boarding school led by nuns in Haarbeke, a fictitious town close to Kortrijk. Claus himself was briefly a member of a Flemish nationalist youth organisation. Under the German occupation, many of Claus' teachers and his own father were sympathetic to collaborationism and fascism. He was eleven at the time of the German invasion of Belgium. He grew up in a Catholic milieu and was educated at a boarding school. Hugo Claus was born in Bruges, West Flanders in 1929. It was also made into a mini-series the same year. The work was first published in an English translation by Arnold J. "of Belgium" ( van België) text not divided in chapters."The Sorrow" ( Het verdriet) 27 numbered chapters with titles.
The novel itself is a bildungsroman formed from two sections: The Sorrow of Belgium explores the childhood and youth of Louis Seynaeve, a Flemish schoolboy living in the region of Kortrijk during World War II when Belgium was under German occupation. It has been described as "one of the great novels of postwar Europe". The book, widely considered Claus's most important work and "the most important Dutch-language novel of the twentieth century", is a bildungsroman which explores themes around politics and growing up in Flanders around World War II. The Sorrow of Belgium ( Dutch: Het verdriet van België) is a 1983 novel by the Belgian author Hugo Claus (1929–2008).
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