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Het Dwaallicht, a literary concert, 2008
Het Dwaallicht is Willem ELSSCHOTS'S last and most enigmatic work. Willem ELSSCHOTS'S alter ego Laarmans is being dragged through the Antwerp metropolis by three Afghan sailors. Together with them he wanders through the city in search of the mysterious Maria VAN DAM, a seamstress the sailors have met that morning on the ship. It is a compelling story full of surprises, interruptions and inhibitions.
At the request of Antwerp Book Capital the Philharmonic and Behoud de Begeerte translated this enigmatic work to music and images with a literary concert in the Singel. Most important was the tension between appearance and being, between ideal and reality, between dream and action. With SCHUBERT, BERGH and BERNSTEIN and a sophisticated text projection, you could relive LAARMANS’ attempt to escape the dull civilian life.
Schubert's Wandererfantasie is an appropriate choice. Not only SCHUBERT was one of Elsschot favorite composers. The basic motif of the piano sonata follows closely Het Dwaallicht: the so called Wanderlust, the atmosphere of loneliness and longing and the quest for unattainable happiness fits LAARMANS very well.
In Fancy Fee of Leonard BERNSTEIN the plot revolves around three sailors who are docked in the port of New York. They have a day off and take the opportunity to explore Manhattan. Antwerp is not New York, and the three sailors in Fancy Fee are Americans, not Afghans. Yet they are driven by the same desire: they go looking for the woman of their dreams.
The women theme is found in the Lulu-Suite from the last and unfinished opera by Alban BERGH. Lulu is a seductive and elusive woman. A woman of the world and a force of nature, a fickle girl who seduces men and causes catastrophes. Also Maria VAN DAM seduces and is untraceable. She is a romantic ideal. She is present and absent. At the same time she, and nobody else, starts the story of Het Dwaallicht.
Specifications
PUBLISHER City of Antwerp
YEAR 2008
DIMENSIONS 420 x 594 mm
NUMBER 200 ex.
PRINT Recto CMYK
PAPER Offset 115 g
FONTS Vandekeere, Sun
Expo Elsschot in vertaling, 2010
Elsschot Verfilmd, 2010
Musical Theatre Dwaallicht, 2010
Expo Dicht bij Elsschot, 2010
Openingsfestival Tussen droom en daad, 2010
Stadsfestival De Stad van Elsschot, 2010
‘U schijnt de stad niet goed te kennen?’, 2009
De Stad van Elsschot In Situ, 2009
Elsschot and the sea, 2008
Het Dwaallicht, a literary concert, 2008
Go out with Elsschot, 2007
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