Bibliograph

Amsterdam stories, Nescio ; introduction by Joseph O'Neill ; selected and translated from the Dutch by Damion Searls

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Label

Amsterdam stories, Nescio ; introduction by Joseph O'Neill ; selected and translated from the Dutch by Damion Searls

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

short stories

Main title

Amsterdam stories

Oclc number

738339634

Responsibility statement

Nescio ; introduction by Joseph O'Neill ; selected and translated from the Dutch by Damion Searls

Series statement

New York Review Books classics

Summary

No one has written more feelingly and more beautifully than Nescio about the madness and sadness, courage and vulnerability of youth: its big plans and vague longings, not to mention the binges, crashes, and marathon walks and talks. No one, for that matter, has written with such pristine clarity about the radiating canals of Amsterdam and the cloud-swept landscape of the Netherlands. Who was Nescio? Nescio--Latin for "I don't know"--was the pen name of J.H.F. Gronloh, the highly successful director of the Holland-Bombay Trading Company and a father of four--someone who knew more than enough about respectable maturity. Only in his spare time and under the cover of a pseudonym, as if commemorating a lost self, did he let himself go, producing over the course of his lifetime a handful of utterly original stories that contain some of the most luminous pages in modern literature

Table Of Contents

The freeloader -- When we were titans -- The writing on the wall -- Out along the IJ -- Little poet -- From an unfinished novel -- The valley of obligations -- The end -- Insula dei

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