A wolf in the cupboard that Jan Terlouw only placed

No, no string. But this mini -library is used as a letterbox, as witnessed by the white envelope that is facing ‘the family around Jan Terlouw’. Because this is not just a street book cabinet, it is at the start of what the ‘own way’ that leads to the estate of Terlouw, who died on 16 May. The Stentor reported: ‘Just before death, Jan Terlouw (93) placed a minibieb in front of his house in Twello’.

It is a long -term book house, mounted on a sturdy metal pole, painted in nature -friendly yellow and green. It is not full this morning; You can also imagine that the desire of the audience to get a book from Jan Terlouw’s box is greater than the ability of passers -by to refill things here in the forest in time. There are some youth books, a Godfather title by Mario Puzo and the Mini Bible Wok dishes (A person can be mistaken, but Terlouw didn’t seem like a wokman). I add six books, taken from cupboards elsewhere.

The most Terlouw’s title is on the shelf The Wolfsvel and other storiesa collection of stories for children of Ton van Reen ‘(1941), the Limburg writer Who has a crowd of adult gourmets as a fan. The stories in The Wolfsvel States from 1987, when the wolf was still a far-from-my-bed show for the (young) Dutch reader. The fortunes of the Veluwse ‘are now’Wolf Bram‘(Shooting or not shooting, that is the question) National news.

Van Reen takes the animals very close. In the title story, Kleine Nelly hers in an old wolf vibrate to lure the pack that attacks her village. (« But how is it that you smell like stumbling? You stink of mice, » the Opperwolf signals.) She doesn’t hold her role as a Wolf van Troje because she gets attached to the group. In the end she explains people and wolf how to live together-which turns out not to be so complicated in the populism-Luwe Universe of these stories.

However, usually it is not about home-garden-and-kitchen wolves, but about werewolves: people who turn into bloodthirsty monsters at night, usually because they have to pay for previously grounded sins.

Even if you actually know what is about to happen, Van Reen still hunts a shiver over the back, for example when the farmer’s son Harm steps through the forest with a cart full of freshly rooted roots just after the sun: « Sometimes, when the moon shone through the clouds, the trees lightly led by Schimmel, he was caused by it, he was a shimmer, he was from.” ”” ”” And then: « Suddenly he felt a claw in his neck. »

Great – and very dark – is the story about a friendly grandfather who dies of old age, but suddenly climbing in the form of a black wolf out the window of the mourning room – and has to die again. Because violence is often the only option to break the spell and to give the werewolf a human body again. This is how you look after reading The Wolfsvel Otherwise to the current stories about the Veluwse Wolf Bram who seems to be so interested in people. The chance is small, but it will not happen to us that if this animal is hit by a (silver) bullet, it turns out to be a politician punished for earlier sins – you can choose who you find the most resilient of the couple.

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