#de engelenmaker

[juststarsandthemoon]

i hate this book i hate this book so much, shut uo aboit his autism you know nothing about his autism you fucking allist

[tragedykery]

“was victor hoppe a lesbian ally” thread locked after 18.729 pages of heated debate

[wekiaamtoo]

For my fellow dutchies out there if you wanna be traumatized for life go read De Engelenmaker by Stefan Brijs 😭😭 what the actual f was that and why was I so entranced by it 😭😭😭

[romanticcism]

“Soms is wat onmogelijk lijkt, alleen maar moeilijk”

De engelenmaker (2005) // Stefan Brijs

[imadedisstuff]

I made this stop motion to show my development in reading to my Dutch literature class. Each block represents a book or a genre, and the size of the block shows what impact it had on me. It probably makes sense to no one, but eh well...

[tragedykery]

you know what? to be completely fair to dr victor hoppe, if that had happened to me, I, too would develop a complicated (read: fucked up) relationship with like. Everything

[tragedykery]

Hi my name is Victor Hoppe and I have a lot of hubris (that’s how I got my name) and short red hair and beard and a schisis and a lot of people tell me I look like my father (AN: if u try to talk to me abt him get da hell out of here!). I’m not related to Jesus but I wish I was because he’s a major fucking hottie figure I identify with a little too much. I’m a doctor and I work at the university of Aachen (I’m thirty-nine). I commit medical malpractice (in case you couldn’t tell). For example my colleagues think I’m trying to clone mice again but I already succeeded at that even if no one has been able to replicate my success (bunglers) so I’m secretly trying to clone myself. I’ve succeeded at the first part and now I only need to wait for the woman who’s unknowingly carrying my four clones (she thinks it’s a single clone of herself) to finally prove that man can create life just like God. I was walking outside the hospital. The medical ethics committee stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them.

[hans-garden]

re-reading The Angel Maker (De engelenmaker) bij Stefan Brijs again because it's my favorite book with an autistic character and nothing will ever change that. but I did pick up on some stuff during this re-read that I find difficult to interpret. the way Victor is described as a child is quite...pathologizing and othering? like the way he plays with the puzzle is is described as "compulsive" by his father with very little insight into how Victor himself experiences this (like okay he's not doing the puzzle like a typical kid would, but maybe he's enjoying himself? maybe it's a self-soothing thing. or maybe it is really obsessive-compulsive and Victor is experiencing distress. we wouldn't know because we aren't told). and what I find difficult to interpret is whose perspective this is, his father's or the author's. because it's understandable that his father has this very limited understanding and very outside view of Victor. but the lack of description of Victor's experience makes me think that to an extent the author also agrees with the underlying notion that Victor's way of playing with the puzzle is compulsive/meaningless. though this isn't entirely consistent with how the rest of the book is written, because even as a young child Victor is given a degree of interiority that allows the reader to follow his reasoning.