Theatre monologue from WALPURGIS' musical theatre performance of the same name
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“Everything comes, everything goes, everything flows, and at the end of the river, where it plunges like cascades hundreds of metres into the depths, everything is gone and gone, everything that breathes plunges with it into the abyss, to sink forever into the nowhere-ending silent sea, from which no one has ever returned.
All that whining at funerals, I suddenly thought, -one should, on the contrary, cheer, sing and rejoice for the dead, finally redeemed and admitted, as one incongruously claims, to higher intelligentsia.”
Jeroen Brouwers, from BDE, 2011
Reviews
Even without (...) stage context, BDE (near-death experience) is independently savourable, all the more so because it once again fits seamlessly into that ever-expanding, large, resonant sound box of Brouwers’ oeuvre. Moreover, Jelle Jespers‘ pared-down design makes the ’novella' a desirable book object.
De Morgen, Dirk Leyman
Literary gold by Jeroen Brouwers.
Knack online, Els Van Steenberghe
A so-called near-death experience, or perhaps better a near-death experience, cannot be put into words. It is truly an overwhelming, unimaginable and totally unexpected experience, which people can experience under certain and varying circumstances. The prevailing and oh-so-familiar worldview is turned completely upside down. Jeroen Brouwers has succeeded well in putting this unspeakable experience into words in a comprehensible and intriguing way. An impressive and captivating achievement.
Pim Van Lommel, cardiologist and author of Endless Consciousness
