Research Catalog

Title

Amsterdam stories / Nescio ; introduction by Joseph O'Neill ; selected and translated from the Dutch by Damion Searls.

Author

Nescio, 1882-1961

Publication

New York : New York Review Books, c2012.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Searls, Damion

Description

xii, 161 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

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. Gronloh, 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.

Series Statement

New York Review Books classics

Uniform Title

New York Review Books classics

Subject

• Short stories, Dutch > Translations into English
• Amsterdam (Netherlands) > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Fiction
• Translations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The freeloader -- When we were titans -- The writing on the wall -- Out along the IJ -- Little poet -- From an unfinished novel -- The valley of obligations -- The end -- Insula dei.

ISBN

• 9781590174920 (alk. paper)
• 1590174925 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011043827

OCLC

• 738339634
• SCSB-11855750

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library