Het ivoren aapje: Een roman van Brusselsch leven

The narrative opens with the death of an elderly matriarch and follows her son's inward struggle with guilt alongside the public rituals of mourning, using detailed domestic and ceremonial scenes to sketch a broader portrait of affluent urban society. Close psychological observation alternates with satirical distance as assorted characters and family relationships expose competing desires, hypocrisies, and artistic ambitions. The prose moves between interior monologue, descriptive set pieces of funerary pageantry, and reflective commentary, examining memory, social performance, and the friction between imaginative invention and claimed realism.