Character (novel)

Character (original Dutch title Karakter) is a novel by Dutch author Ferdinand Bordewijk published in 1938.

Subtitled "Een roman van zoon en vader", "a novel of son and father", it is a Bildungsroman[1] that traces the relationship between a stern father and his son.

Character is Bordewijk's best-known novel, and the basis for a 1997 film of the same name.

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Title page of Karakter (1938 ed.)