Gaston Burssens (1896–1965)

Fabula Rasa, proeve van objectief dagboek by the Belgian author Gaston Burssens is an experimental prose collection. It consists of 58 short prose fragments in grouped in two parts, fabulae fictae and fabulae veraces. These fragments are said to form a selection from hundreds such fragments written between 1925 and 1955, presented in no particular order. Some, or all, of the fragments are in fact plagiarized text fragments, said to be taken from Apollinaire, Aragon, Franz Kafka, Paul van Ostaijen, Claude Le Petit and August Vermeylen.

However, the fragments are not the most important part of the work. The author's introduction to part 1, the introduction to part 2, intermissions and the afterword, form the real core of the work. These text fragments explain the importance of style.… (meer)