Terrin, Peter
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1968- ) Belgian author whose second novel, Blanco ["Blank"] (2003), depicts a disintegrative relationship between a father and son after the former has lost his wife, couched in terms that have evoked comparison to Franz Kafka. Of sf interest is his fourth novel, De Bewaker (2009; trans David Colmer as The Guard 2012), set in an Underground parking lot occupied by two guards who though sent occasional food supplies are never relieved of their duties, and who are gradually convinced that the End of the World has occurred, or at the very least some immense Disaster (see Paranoia). Their obsessive attention to the rituals of their functionary employment (leading eventually to atrocity) again evokes a Kafkaesque atmosphere. [JC]
Peter Terrin
born Tielt, East Flanders, Belgium: 3 October 1968
works (selected)
- Blanco ["Blank"] (Brussels: De Arbeiderspers, 2003) [binding unknown/]
- De Bewaker (Brussels: De Arbeiderspers, 2009) [binding unknown/]
- The Guard (London: Quercus/MacLehose Press, 2012) [trans by David Colmer of the above: hb/uncredited]
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