Hugo Claus
Hugo Claus
Hugo Maurice Julien Clauswas a leading Belgian author who published under his own name as well as various pseudonyms. Claus' literary contributions spanned the genres of drama, the novel, and poetry; he also left a legacy as a painter and film director. He wrote primarily in Dutch, although he also wrote some poetry in English...
NationalityBelgian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth5 April 1929
CountryBelgium
each-day world mouths
We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.
feet light laughing
Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know.