Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
Author of Grand Hotel Europa
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Works by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
De Nederlandse poëzie van de twintigste en de eenentwintigste eeuw in 1000 en enige gedichten (2016) 24 copies
Het ministerie van Specifieke Zaken over Haags gekonkel en de mentale staat van het land (2011) 3 copies
The Manipulative Mode: Political Propaganda in Antiquity: A Collection of Case Studies (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica… (2004) — Editor — 2 copies
Three Aeginetan Odes of Pindar: A Commentary on Nemean V, Nemean Iii, & Pythian VIII (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica… (1999) 2 copies
Dodendans 1 copy
Karakters 1 copy
Sonnetten 2018 1 copy
Pfeijffer Ilja 1 copy
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- Legal name
- Pfeijffer, Ilja Leonard
- Birthdate
- 1968-01-17
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- The Netherlands
- Country (for map)
- The Netherlands
- Birthplace
- Rijswijk, The Netherlands
- Occupations
- poet
novelist
polemicist - Awards and honors
- C. Buddingh’-prijs (1999)
Anton Wachterprijs (2002)
Literaturpreis Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2002)
Tzumprijs (2005)
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Monterosso mon amour by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
With Monterosso mon amour Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer disdainfully seems to mock his readers. The short novella consists of a framework, suggesting the story within the story is 'real', not written by the writer. In the framing story, before and after, a middle-aged woman meets the writer, but the writer seems quite unaware of her. To him she is just one of the many people, despite the fact that she works on his behalf. To her the writer is a celebrity. The framed story is like a dream, but is is a dream that does not come to fullfilment. in both the framed and the framing story, the woman is disillusioned, her life is but a dream within a dream.… (more)
½
Strange and utterly wonderful!
At first, I could not figure out what it is - a memoir, a documentary, a novel, a danbrownish thriller, a very-very long essay? I guess all of them, really. But then all the pieces fell into the right place and I'm still a bit flabbergasted. HIGHLY recommended!
(Spoiler alter: if you like to travel, this book can fuck you up quite thoroughly.)
At first, I could not figure out what it is - a memoir, a documentary, a novel, a danbrownish thriller, a very-very long essay? I guess all of them, really. But then all the pieces fell into the right place and I'm still a bit flabbergasted. HIGHLY recommended!
(Spoiler alter: if you like to travel, this book can fuck you up quite thoroughly.)
Hahaha, heerlijk boekje, kort maar krachtig, en grappig op zoveel verschillende manieren. Het is niet onopgemerkt gebleven.
niet door heen te komen langdradige geschiedenis roman die mij totaal niet kan boeien. 2 x in begonnen maar na 350 blz (van de 943!) heb ik het opgegeven….
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