Paul Van Ostaijen

Paul Van Ostaijen

Paul Van Ostaijen (1896–1928), born in Antwerp, Belgium, was a poet, short story writer, essayist, and scriptwriter. He worked as a council worker, a bookseller’s assistant, and an art dealer. In 1928 he founded Avontuur with G. Burssens and E. Du Perron. He died of tuberculosis that same year.

Feasts Of Fear And Agony

Poetry by Paul Van Ostaijen

Translated from the Dutch by Hidde Van Ameyden van Duym

With a contribution by Paul Van Ostaijen

Paul Van Ostaijen (1896-1928) was one of the leading figures of the modernist vanguard in Holland and Belgium, the restless, almost spasmodic quality of his work giving early shape and direction to the expressionist and dadaist tendencies in the Low Countries after the First World War. Feasts of Fear and Agony, a cycle of nineteen poems, was written in 1918-20, when he was with the Belgian occupation forces in Berlin. Van Ostaijen, himself active in leftwing revolutionary circles in Antwerp as well as the Flemish nationalist movement, was deeply affected by the turmoil in Germany.…
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