Men After 50

“If I knew today without a doubt that God does not exist, I would be done with the monastery tomorrow,” says the abbot of a Trappist abbey.
“I believe that everything is finite, and that comforts me, just as the infinite comforts a believer,” says the atheist professor.
From abbot Manu Van Hecke to philosopher and mathematician Jean Paul Van Bendegem, from judge Roland Tack to writer Luuk Gruwez, from cartoonist Patrick Ysebaert to singer Koen Crucke, from cultural critic and author Jozef Deleu to poet and TV director Guido De Bruyn, from an architect and a psychiatrist to one of the country's most popular politicians.
Laurens De Keyzer found 15 famous and less famous men over 50 who were willing to have a candid conversation about youth and growing old, homesickness and relativity, love and friendship, joys and sorrows, ailments and death. 15 conversations about life. With portrait photos by Marco Mertens.
A surprising gift for all who can count themselves among this generation! But undoubtedly also instructive and hopeful for those who come after them.
LAURENS DE KEYZER is an author, former editor and current columnist for De Standaard. In addition to numerous contributions to newspapers and magazines, he has published various publications of an informative and literary nature, as well as several thematic interview books.