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AMSTERDAM STORIES
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Nescio |
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Paperback |
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£16.99 |
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£12.40 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1590174925 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781590174920 |
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| Publisher: |
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, INC |
| Pub. date: |
20 March, 2012 |
| Edition: |
Main |
| Pages: |
208 |
| Synopsis: |
J. H. F. Gronloh was a successful Dutch businessman, executive of the Holland-Bombay Trading Company and father of four, with a secret life: under the pseudonym Nescio (Latin for "I don't know"), he wrote a series of short stories that went unrecognized at the time but that are now widely considered the best prose ever written in Dutch. Nescio's stories look back on the enthusiasms of youth with an achingly beautiful melancholy comparable to the work of Alain-Fournier and F. Scott Fitzgerald. He writes of young dreams from the perspective of adult resignation, but reinhabits youthful ambition and adventure so fully that the later perspective is the one thrown into doubt-and with language as fresh as when it was written a century ago. His last long story, written and set during World War II, is a remarkable evocation of the Netherlands in wartime and a hymn to our capacity to take refuge in memory and imagination. This is great literature-capturing the Dutch landscape and scenes of Amsterdam with a remarkable poetry, and expressing the spirit of the country of businessmen and van Gogh, merchants and visionaries. |
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US |
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NYRB Classics |
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Returnable |
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