Dood meisje
by Geerten Meijsing
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Geerten Meijsing is a Dutch writer whose work falls into different categories, written using different author's names. Particularly his early work was written and published by a collective names Joyce & Co. The most important co-author of that collective goes by the single name ""Kanger". Works written by this collective almost all belong to the Erwin-trilogie and some works related to this work. These novels are very erudite in a snobbish way. Other works are written under the author's own name, and it is particularly with these works that he has been fairly successful, although less in recent years. For the past ten years, Geerten Meijsing has moved to Italy, and is financially propped up by a club of fans, who support him by way of show more crowdfunding. Especially the recent works written in Italy are poorly received.
Under his own name, Geerten Meijsing writes a varied style of novels, often with in an easy style, which either is very intellectual in a sneering way, or pokes fun of supposedly intellectual people.
Dood meisje is such a loosely large novel with a loose structure, and a simple story that mocks an older professor. Essentially, the story is fairly simple, namely an older professor attempts to take care of a prostitute, as their sexual service relationship morphes into a relation that hangs between a fatherly-daughter and lovers'relation. Obviously, since the girl is a sex worker this costs him a lot of money. Besides, he cannot really control the girl, and the latter part of the novel reads like a rescue mission in which he tries to save her from doom.
The story is somewhat confusing as the professor uses alternating names, and is sometimes referred to as Provenier and sometimes Hovenier. Possibly, the novel hinges on references to other works, but I was not that interested to explore such developments in the story.
It was definitely an enjoyable read, but my preference for Meijsing's work is still with the more serious work written collectively as Joyce & Co. show less
Under his own name, Geerten Meijsing writes a varied style of novels, often with in an easy style, which either is very intellectual in a sneering way, or pokes fun of supposedly intellectual people.
Dood meisje is such a loosely large novel with a loose structure, and a simple story that mocks an older professor. Essentially, the story is fairly simple, namely an older professor attempts to take care of a prostitute, as their sexual service relationship morphes into a relation that hangs between a fatherly-daughter and lovers'relation. Obviously, since the girl is a sex worker this costs him a lot of money. Besides, he cannot really control the girl, and the latter part of the novel reads like a rescue mission in which he tries to save her from doom.
The story is somewhat confusing as the professor uses alternating names, and is sometimes referred to as Provenier and sometimes Hovenier. Possibly, the novel hinges on references to other works, but I was not that interested to explore such developments in the story.
It was definitely an enjoyable read, but my preference for Meijsing's work is still with the more serious work written collectively as Joyce & Co. show less
Hovenier, bekend uit eerder werk van Meijsing (1950), leeft onder de naam Gardenier teruggetrokken in Deventer. Op een avond bestelt hij bij een escortservice een vrouw, Lily. De oude man raakt aan de jonge vrouw -zij is amper 20- gehecht en zij betrekt op zijn verzoek een kamer in zijn huis. Aanvankelijk leven zij beiden op door het contact, maar allengs blijkt het meisje psychisch een wrak. Later in de roman stelt een psychiater de diagnose: "Lily is een borderliner". Gardernier ontfermt zich over haar en stelt zich ten doel haar te redden. Zijn pogingen hebben echter een averechts effect. Na een hopeloze gang langs Riagg en psychiatrische ziekenhuizen neemt zij een overdosis medicijnen en raakt in coma. Het verhaal is bekend (de show more dokter en het lichte meisje e.a.), maar de manier waarop Meijsing het vertelt is prachtig. Hij maakt behendig gebruik van alle literaire middelen die hem ter beschikking staan: bijtende humor, een mooie barokke stijl en een geraffineerde verteltechniek. In de roman wordt verwezen naar eerder werk van Meijsing, maar hij is los te lezen. show less
Nov 24, 2008Dutch
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