Karel Broeckaert

Flemish writer

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Belgian literature

  • ethnic and linguistic composition of Belgium
    In Belgian literature: Revival

    Karel Broeckaert wrote dialogues modeled on Joseph Addison’s Spectator essays in a spirit of rational liberalism, creating a literary figure, “Gysken,” the ironic representative of the ancien régime; he also wrote the first Flemish prose story, Jellen en Mietje (1811; “Jellen and Mietje”). The poet…

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Flemish literature

  • In Flemish literature: Revival

    Karel Broeckaert wrote dialogues modeled on Joseph Addison’s Spectator essays in a spirit of rational liberalism, creating a literary figure, “Gysken,” the ironic representative of the ancien régime; he also wrote the first Flemish prose story, Jellen en Mietje (1811; “Jellen and Mietje”). The poet…

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