Author Description

The well-known book of Charles de Coster's "The Legend of Ulenspiegel", released in December 1867, not only glorified the Belgian literature, but also became an outstanding phenomenon of the world's literature in the context of where the work stands next to such great books like "Don Quixote" Cervantes and "Gargantua and Pantagruel" Rabelais. The novel by Charles de Coster, which tells about the adventures of Till Eulenspiegel and his friend the fat gluttons Lamme Gudzake, imbued with the spirit of freedom. Till Eulenspiegel, a joker and a witty ironist, which gets arrogant nobles and monks, kings and becomes a fighter, brave gezom, embodies the national spirit of Flanders. Thiel - national hero, never dying and aging. He has many faces: that he is a soldier or a peasant, the painter in landgrafskom palace, the jester at the court of the king, but everywhere he is a rebel, a fighter for the happiness of its people.