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Fabula Rasa by Flemish writer Gaston Burssens is a collection of prose poems and random notes. It is inscribed by two mottos: "Rien n'est plus grave au monde que la bêtise" (Louis XIV) en "Rien n'est plus bête au monde que la gravité" (Stendhal).

The full title of the book is Fabula Rasa, proeve van objektief dagboek (E:Fabula Rasa, Attempt at an Objective Diary, 1945 and 1964)

The collection was first published by De Sikkel in 1945, and went by largely unnoticed, only appreciated by such writers as Louis Paul Boon. Fabula Rasa was augmented and republished by de Bezige Bij in 1964.

Literary critic Paul de Wispelaere reviewed it in the chapter "De groteske wereld en de wereld van de groteske," in his collection Het Perzische Tapijt (1966). In this essay de Wispelaere juxtaposes Fabula Rasa with the paraprose of Gust Gils, another Flemish writer who wrote in the tradition of the literary grotesque. Fabula Rasa's Belgian-French counterpart is Plume by Henri Michaux.

Two other works, by Edward Stachura and Brian Chan have the same title: Fabula Rasa.



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