After the armistice, Belgium had to reconstruct itself politically and culturally. In literature, this led to latinization that very quickly became a sort of assimilation to France. At the same time, this caused an increase of national conscience that developed among young people as a movement alongside the literary, which has returned under French suzerainty. Some writers (Gauchez, Perier, etc.), however, began to celebrate Belgian francophone authors in order to claim the existence of a different corpus of French literature per se. In 1919, young author Henry Soumagne returned from the German camps and gave in “Les épaves” a fable that attests to the tension between the weight of the 19th-century Belgian myth and 1920s modernism.
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