Georges Eekhoud

Georges Eekhoud was a Belgian novelist of Flemish descent, but writing in French.

Eekhoud was born in Antwerp. A member of a fairly welloff family, he lost his parents as a young boy. When he came into his own he started working for a journal. First as a corrector, later he contributed a serial. In 1877, the generosity of his grandmother permitted young Eekhoud to publish his first two books, Myrtes et Cyprs and Zigzags potiques, both volumes of poetry. In the beginning of the 1880s Eekhoud took part in several of the modern FrenchBelgian artist movements, like Les XX and La Jeune Belgique . Kees Doorik, his first novel was published in 1883, about the wild life of a tough young farmhand who committed a murder. The renowned freethinking publisher Henri Kistemaeckers brought out a second edition three years later. Eekhoud received some guarded praise by famous authors like Edmond de Goncourt and JorisKarl Huysmans who both sent Eekhoud a personal letter. For his second prose book, Kermesses , not only Goncourt and Huysmans praised him, but also mile Zola, about whom

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