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(4.5) | 5 | The Dedalus Book of Dutch Fantasy is the most ambitious and wide-ranging anthology of Dutch fiction ever to appear in English, and reads like the Who's Who of Dutch Literature, with stories by the undisputed contemporary masters such as Gerard Reve and Harry Mulisch, and classic authors such as Couperus, Van Schendel and Vestdijk, as well as many of the rising stars of the younger generation; Frans Kellendonk, A.F.TH. Van Der Heijden and P.F. Thomese.The stereotype of the Dutch that most immediately springs to mind is that of a clean, orderly, and down-to-earth people. Richard Huijing reveals the other side of this society; that of a dark netherworld of the macabre, the weird, the perverted, the violent and the fancifully impossible conjured up by a host of the finest writers in the Dutch language of the last hundred years.… (more) |
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 Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. ▾Conversations (About links) No current Talk conversations about this book. » See also 5 mentions » Add other authors | Author name | Role | Type of author | Work? | Status | | Huijing, Richard | Editor | primary author | all editions | confirmed | | Aletrino, Arnold | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | | Arends, Jan | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | | Asscher, Maarten | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | | Belcampo | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | | Beurskens, Huub | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | | Biesheuvel, JMA | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | | Brakman, Willem | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | | Campert, Remco | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | | Couperus, Louis | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | | de Haan, Jacob Israel | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | | Der Mouw, Johan Andreas | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | | Heeresma, Marcus | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | | Hofker, Jan | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | | Kellendonk, Frans | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | | Koolhaas, Anton | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | | Kusters, Frans | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | | Mulisch, Harry | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | | Nolthenius, Helene | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | | Reve, Gerard | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | | Schurmann, Willem | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | | Siebelink, Jan | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | | Thomese, PF | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | | van Beek, Fritzi Harmsen | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | | van der Heijden, A.F. Th. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | | van Deyssel, Lodewijk | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | | van Dullemen, Inez | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | | van Nievelt, Carel | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | | van Schendel, Arthur | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | | Vestdijk, Simon | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | | Wolkers, Jan | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | | Bosch, Hieronymus | Cover artist | secondary author | some editions | confirmed |
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None ▾Book descriptions The Dedalus Book of Dutch Fantasy is the most ambitious and wide-ranging anthology of Dutch fiction ever to appear in English, and reads like the Who's Who of Dutch Literature, with stories by the undisputed contemporary masters such as Gerard Reve and Harry Mulisch, and classic authors such as Couperus, Van Schendel and Vestdijk, as well as many of the rising stars of the younger generation; Frans Kellendonk, A.F.TH. Van Der Heijden and P.F. Thomese.The stereotype of the Dutch that most immediately springs to mind is that of a clean, orderly, and down-to-earth people. Richard Huijing reveals the other side of this society; that of a dark netherworld of the macabre, the weird, the perverted, the violent and the fancifully impossible conjured up by a host of the finest writers in the Dutch language of the last hundred years. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description |
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