The Penguin book of Dutch short stories
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The Penguin book of Dutch short stories
(Penguin modern classics, . Fiction)
Penguin Classics/Penguin, 2016
- : [pbk.]
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Chronology: p. [xxiii]-xxix
Contents of Works
- An eccentric = Een zonderling / Marcellus Emants
- The opera glasses = De binocle / Louis Couperus
- The green dream = De groene droom / Arthur van Schendel
- Young titans = Titaantjes / Nescio
- The briefcase = De aktetas / F. Bordewijk
- The sirens = De sirenen / Maria Dermoût
- My brown friend = De bruine vriend / Simon Vestdijk
- Funeral rights = Uitvaart / Belcampo
- Green = Groen / A. Alberts
- Mr Tip is the fattest pig = Mijnheer Tip is de dikste meneer / Anton Koolhaas
- The portrait = Het portret / Hella Haasse
- Glass = Glas / W.F. Hermans
- Women win = Vrouwen winnen / F.B. Hotz
- What happened to Sergeant Massuro? = Wat gebeurde er met Sergeant Massuro? / Harry Mulisch
- Feathered friends = Gevederde vrienden / Jan Wolkers
- Paula / Cees Nooteboom
- The kid with the knife = De jongen met het mes / Remco Campert
- The shattering truth = De verpletterende werkelijkheid / J.M.A. Biesheuvel
- War is fun = Oorlog is leuk / Bob den Uyl
- Castle Muider = Het Muiderslot / Maarten 'T Hart
- Olive = Olijfje / Helga Ruebsamen
- Sand = De spiegel / Mensje van Keulen
- The Minnema variations = De Minnema-variaties / Nicolaas Matsier
- Foreign service = Buitenlandse dienst / Frans Kellendonk
- The motionless man = De onbeweeglijke / Oek de Jong
- Tincture = Tinctuur / Thomas Rosenboom
- The Byzantine cross = Het Byzantijnse kruis / A.F.Th. van der Heijden
- Sunrise day = De dag van zonnegloren / Margriet de Moor
- The southern continent = Zuidland / P.F. Thomése
- East Bergholt / Marcel Möring
- Poop = Poep / Manon Uphoff
- Winnie and the innocence of the world = Winnie en de onschuld / Joost Zwagerman
- Ghost town = Spookstad / Hafid Bouazza
- Someone else = Iemand anders / Arnon Grunberg
- Indian time / Sanneke van Hassel
- A room of my own = Een kamer voor mezelf / Joost de Vries
Description and Table of Contents
Description
'The stories here will provoke, delight and impress. Joost Zwagerman's selection forms a fascinating guidebook to a landscape you'll surely want to wander in again.' Clare Lowden, TLS
'There is a lot of northern European melancholy in the collection, though often tinged with wry humour...an excellent book' Jonathan Gibbs, Minor Literatures
'We were kids - but good kids. If I may say so myself. We're much smarter now, so smart it's pathetic. Except for Bavink, who went crazy'
A husband forms gruesome plans for his new fridge; a government employee has a haunting experience on his commute home; prisoners serve as entertainment for wealthy party guests; an army officer suffers a monstrous tropical illness. These short stories contain some of the most groundbreaking and innovative writing in Dutch literature from 1915 to the present day, with most pieces appearing here in English for the first time. Blending unforgettable snapshots of the realities of everyday life with surrealism, fantasy and subversion, this collection shows Dutch writing to be an integral part of world literary history.
Joost Zwagerman (1963-2015) was a novelist, poet, essayist and editor of several anthologies. He started his career as a writer with bestselling novels, describing the atmosphere of the 1980s and 1990s, such as Gimmick!(1988) and False Light (1991). In later years, he concentrated on writing essays - notably on pop culture and visual arts - and poetry. Suicide was the theme of the novel Six Stars (2002). He took his own life just after having published a new collection of essays on art, The Museum of Light.
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