by Midas Dekkers · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9789025412968
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«De larf» is an essay by Midas Dekkers on childhood and metamorphosis, published by Uitgeverij Contact in paperback in 2002 (287 pages, in Dutch).
For Dekkers, the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly has a human parallel: children and adults would be two varieties of the same species, with separate worlds and interests that do not always coincide. He analyses puberty as a chrysalis, the segregation of children in schools and nurseries, and adult nostalgia for childhood as a return to the cocoon.
The subtitle of «De larf» is «Over kinderen en metamorfose». The essay includes bibliographic references and an index and was nominated for the Publieksprijs voor het Nederlandse Boek (2003).
For readers of essays and popular science interested in childhood, biology and Dutch culture.
