Amsterdam Stories
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- Synopsis
- No one has written more feelingly and more beautifully than Nescio about the madness and sadness, courage and vulnerability of youth: its big plans and vague longings, not to mention the binges, crashes, and marathon walks and talks. No one, for that matter, has written with such pristine clarity about the radiating canals of Amsterdam and the cloud-swept landscape of the Netherlands. Who was Nescio? Nescio--Latin for "I don't know"--was the pen name of J.H.F. Grönloh, the highly successful director of the Holland-Bombay Trading Company and a father of four--someone who knew more than enough about respectable maturity. Only in his spare time and under the cover of a pseudonym, as if commemorating a lost self, did he let himself go, producing over the course of his lifetime a handful of utterly original stories that contain some of the most luminous pages in modern literature. This is the first English translation of Nescio's stories.le poetry, and expressing the spirit of the country of businessmen and van Gogh, merchants and visionaries. This first translation of Nescio into English--all the major works and a broad selection of his shorter stories--is a literary event.
- Copyright:
- 1933
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781590175071
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781590174920
- Publisher:
- New York Review Books
- Date of Addition:
- 05/13/21
- Copyrighted By:
- the J. H. F. Gr
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Introduction by:
- Joseph O'Neill
- Translator:
- Damion Searls