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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
I have a problem with the label "literature". When is a book literature? What defines it? When at school, I had to read x "old" books (medieval to the 19th century), x pre-war books (think 19th century till 1945) and x post-war books (from 1945 till now).
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The second group of books, I personally mostly liked. The language looks a lot more like modern Dutch, a lot of travel stories in the bunch, which I always liked and still do. And prose, instead of verse.
The third group of books, I hated. All dramas, all heavy, all about some mental problems people had to go through. I hate drama. Clear and simple. I don't watch drama on TV, I don't read dram. But they were "literature"!
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Ever since I wrote this, I've been thinking about that one book I liked in the post-war set... And today, I was looking on the Kobo store and saw the book "The Hyperion Cantos" and it suddenly triggered...
De Verwoesting van Hyperion (1978) by Hugo Raes (probably never translated into English, but the English translation would be The Destruction of Hyperion). It's one of the few (if not the only) Dutch (language) SF book that is considered literature...