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‘De komst van Joachim Stiller’ (= Dutch for ‘the coming of Joachim Stiller’) is a novel by the Flemish author Hubert Lampo from 1961.
‘Magical realism’ is this novel’s keyword, a style of writing Lampo excelled in. It deals with the intrusion of the unexplainable into common, everyday’s life. Setting up an atmosphere of tension and uneasiness as a consequence.
In 1976 Flemish producer Harry Kümel transferred ‘De komst van Joachim Stiller’ into a TV-series. Making them an instant hit in the low countries back then. A few decades later the Royal Belgian Film Institute incorporated Kümel’s work in a DVD-series about great Belgian films: it is the very DVD this site is about.Read More »