From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A Dog of Flanders
A Dog of Flanders
A Dog of Flanders
Children selling milk from a dogcart, Belgium, ca. 1890
dennes. His grandfather Jehan Daas, who lives in a small
village near the city of Antwerp, takes him in.
One day, Nello finds a dog who was almost beaten to
death and names him Patrasche. Due to the good care of
Author(s) Marie Louise de la Ramée (as Ouida) Jehan, the dog recovers, and from then on, Nello and Pa-
trasche are inseparable. Since they are very poor, Nello
Country UK has to help his grandfather by selling milk. Patrasche is
Language English shackled to a dogcart and helps Nello pull the milk into
town each morning.
Genre(s) Drama, Tragedy
Nello falls in love with Aloise, the daughter of a well-
Publisher Chapman and Hall off man in the village named Nicholas Cogez. Nicholas
doesn’t want his daughter to have a poor sweetheart.
Publication date 1872
Although Nello is illiterate, he is very talented in draw-
Media type Print (Hardcover) ing. He enters a junior drawing contest in Antwerp, hop-
Pages 293 pp
ing to win the first prize, 200 francs per year. However,
the jury selects somebody else.
ISBN NA Afterwards, he is accused of causing a fire by Nicholas
(the fire occurred on his property) and his grandfather
A Dog of Flanders is an 1872 novel by English author Marie dies. His life becomes even more desperate. Having no
Louise de la Ramée published with her pseudonym "Oui- place to stay, Nello goes to the cathedral of Antwerp to
da". It is about a Flemish boy named Nello and his dog Pa- see Rubens’ The Elevation of the Cross, but he doesn’t
trasche. have enough money to enter. On the night of Christmas
The story, of English origin, has little tradition of be- Eve, he and Patrasche go to Antwerp and, by chance, find
ing read in Belgium, but is becoming more known be- the door to the church open. The next morning, the boy
cause of the tourists it attracts to Antwerp. There is a and his dog are found frozen to death in front of the trip-
small statue of Nello and Patrasche at the Kapellestraat tych.
in the Antwerp suburb of Hoboken, and a commemora-
tive plaque in front of the Antwerp Cathedral donated by
Toyota. The story is widely read in Japan, and has been The Hoboken myth
adapted into several films and anime. Quite recently (not earlier than 1980), the village of the
story was postulated to be Hoboken, but without any
Plot summary reasonable reference from the literature itself. Hoboken
became involved with the story through Jan Corteel, a
In the 19th century, a boy named Nello becomes an or- former Antwerp tourist office employee. He used the
phan at the age of two when his mother dies in the Ar- Schelde river as the "canal" and Hoboken as the village.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A Dog of Flanders
However, the story itself mentions a canal (known as "De • A Boy of Flanders (1924), directed by Victor
Vaart") between Mechelen and Leuven, and the Leuven Schertzinger and starring Jackie Coogan as Nello.[2]
Kermis. • A Dog of Flanders (1935), directed by Edward
Sloman.[3]
Film, TV or theatrical adapta- • A Dog of Flanders (1960), directed by James B. Clark.
The dog was played by Spike.[4]
tions • Dog of Flanders (Japan, 1975), a Japanese animation TV
series produced by Nippon Animation.
• My Patrasche (Japan, 1992), a Japanese animation TV
series produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha.
• The Dog of Flanders (Japan, 1997), directed by Yoshio
Kuroda.[5] This was a remake of the 1975 TV series.
• A Dog of Flanders (1999), directed by Kevin Brodie.[6]
• Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000), a South Korean
satirical version directed by Bong Joon-ho.
• Snow Prince (Japan, 2009), directed by Joji Matsuoka[1].
• A Dog of Flanders, 2011, Minoto Studios
For its authentic 19th century buildings, the Open Air
Museum of Bokrijk, Flanders was used as scenery for the
1975 and 1992 anime and the 1999 film.
Documentary film
• Patrasche, a Dog of Flanders - Made in Japan (Belgium,
2007), a documentary film directed by Didier
Volckaert and An van Dienderen.[7]
References
[1] Yahoo! Japan (Japanese)
External links
The novel has been adapted for cinema and television in • Project Gutenberg eBook
live-action and animation: • Feature article: Do you know "A Dog of Flanders"?, in
• A Dog of Flanders (1914), a short film directed by Crossroads
Howell Hansel.[1] • Patrasche, a Dog of Flanders, documentary website
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• Adventure novels
• English novels
• Novels set in Belgium
• Belgium in fiction
• Fictional dogs
• Novels by Ouida
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