Gaston Burssens

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"Formally one can detect influences from German and French expressionism and from the poetry of Paul van Ostaijen, while in terms of subject matter the poems partly follow the line of Kurt Hiller’s ‘Aktivismus’ and Henri Barbusse’s internationally oriented cultural movement Clarté." --Matthijs de Ridder

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Gaston Karel Mathilde Burssens (18 February 1896 – 29 January 1965) was a Belgian writer writing in Dutch. He studied in Flanders at the University of Ghent, at which, during World War I, the Germans introduced classes given in Dutch language.

He is usually classified as an expressionist literature. He died age 68 in Antwerpen en was buried at the Schoonselhof cemetery. He was a member of the "Activists" and studied at the University of Ghent. He also published previously unpublished work by avant-garde poet and contemporary Paul Van Ostaijen after the latter's death.

In maart 2002 verscheen een geheel aan Burssens gewijd nummer van Boelvaar poef, het tijdschrift van het Louis Paul Boongenootschap, inclusief een editie van Burssens' briefwisseling met schrijver Louis Paul Boon.

 * 1981     ''Verzameld proza''
 * 2005     ''Alles is mogelijk in een gedicht. Verzamelde verzen 1914-1965''
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