Marcellus Emants (1848–1923)
Author of A Posthumous Confession
About the Author
Emants's A Posthumous Confession, his best-known novel, is the first-person account of a social misfit who murders his wife. In spite of Emants's awkward style, it created a sensation when it appeared in 1894. To the author's dismay, the public tended to identify him with the protagonist. Emants's show more work frequently serves to demonstrate the Dutch involvement in naturalism. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Drawing by H.J. Haverman (1857-1928)
Works by Marcellus Emants
Op zee 3 copies
Pro domo 2 copies
'Het is me niet mogelik een mening juist te vinden, omdat ze aangenaam is': Brieven van Marcellus Emants aan Gonne… (2000) 1 copy
Ons geheim 1 copy
Fanny 1 copy
Associated Works
De Nederlandse en Vlaamse literatuur vanaf 1880 in 60 lange verhalen (2006) — Contributor — 39 copies
Dichters van dezen tijd : gedichten — Contributor — 11 copies
* De Provence Lege Artis: Verhalen uit het land van Van Gogh — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Emants, Marcellus
- Birthdate
- 1848-08-12
- Date of death
- 1923-10-14
- Burial location
- Gemeentelijke Begraafplaats, Kerkhoflaan, Den Haag, The Netherlands
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Netherlands
- Birthplace
- Voorburg, Netherlands
- Place of death
- Baden, Switzerland
- Occupations
- poet
author
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- Works
- 39
- Also by
- 6
- Members
- 611
- Popularity
- #41,144
- Rating
- 3.4
- Reviews
- 16
- ISBNs
- 62
- Languages
- 4
- Favorited
- 2
Despite all of his singular and cultural differences, which do make for interesting reading, Emants's narrator, Termeer, is a mere lackey to Dostoevsky's Underground Man, not to mention the Russian writer's more masterful—and even more terse—explorations of alienation, misanthropy, and utter annihilation combined with a psychological insight that makes Emants's work, while groundbreaking in its way, read like charcoal sketches held up beside a dizzyingly taut masterpiece.… (more)