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“His utter simplicity goes hand-in-hand with a great command of humour, irony, matter-of-factness, understatement and sentiment (never sentimtality or self-pity) all of which miraculously balance each other out. . . . Nescio is essentially a lyricist, a poet writing in prose.” —Dutch Foundation for Literature “In every respect the work of Nescio represents an exception to the calm, bourgeois realism of the early twentieth century. . . . He was arguably the most non-conformist writer of his time. . . . In his stories Nescio created a number of extraordinary characters, who have become legendary in Dutch culture.” —Theo Hermans, A Literary History of the Low Countries “Though he published few stories, his position in Dutch literature is a very special one.” —Cassell’s Encyclopedia of World Literature“Nescio’s utter simplicity goes hand-in-hand with a great command of humour, irony, matter-of-factness, understatement and sentiment (never sentimentality or self-pity), all of which miraculously balance each other out. He is essentially a lyricist, a poet writing in prose.” —Dutch Foundation for Literature
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About the Author
Jan Hendrik Frederik Grönloh (1882–1961) was born in Amsterdam, the oldest of four children. After an idealistic youth, he joined the Holland–Bombay Trading Company in 1904, becoming director in 1926, suffering a nervous breakdown leading to a short hospitalization in 1927, and retiring at age fifty-five, on December 31, 1937; he married Aagje Tiket (b. 1883) in 1906 and had four daughters with her, born in 1907, 1908, 1909, and 1912. Meanwhile, as Nescio (Latin for “I don’t know”; he adopted a pseudonym so as not to jeopardize his business career, acknowledging his authorship publicly only in 1929), he wrote what is now considered perhaps the best prose in the Dutch language.Damion Searls is a writer and a translator of many classic twentieth-century authors, including Proust, Rilke, Robert Walser, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Thomas Bernhard. His translation of Hans Keilson’s Comedy in a Minor Key was a New York Times Notable Book of 2010 and a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He also edited Henry David Thoreau’s The Journal: 1837–1861, available as an NYRB Classic.Joseph O’NeilL is the author of three novels, most recently Netherland (2008), and of Blood-Dark Track: A Family History (2001). Born in Ireland, he spent most of his childhood in theNetherlands.
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Product details
Series: New York Review Books Classics
Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics; Main edition (March 20, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590174925
ISBN-13: 978-1590174920
Product Dimensions:
5 x 0.4 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.1 out of 5 stars
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New York Review Books have a real oddity in this one: the four stories and five fragments that together comprise a large part of the published work of the Dutch author Jan Hendrik Gröloh, writing under the self-effacing pen name of Nescio (Latin for "I don't know"). Three of the stories, The Freeloader, Young Titans, and Little Poet, belong to the period 1909-19; the fourth, the darkly enigmatic Insula Dei, comes from 1942, when Holland was under German occupation. But although both World Wars are visible very faintly in the background, Nescio's real subject is the inner lives of young people hoping to make a mark as writers or artists, determined to break free of bourgeois convention, but inevitably getting either sucked back into it or destroyed by it. "It was a strange time. And when I come to think about it, I realize that that time must still be happening now, it will last as long as there are young men of nineteen or twenty running around. It's only for us that the time is long since past."That quotation is from Young Titans, perhaps the most characteristic of the stories, though it shares the same cast of would-be bohemians as three other items in the book. They sit up all evenings in ill-heated attics, one paints a picture, another writes a poem, they go for long walks in the Dutch countryside: "Every day we longed for something, without knowing what. It got monotonous. Sunrise and sunset and sunlight on the water and behind the drifting white clouds [...] all things I had seen so many times and thought about so many times while I was gone and would see again so many more times, so long as I didn't die. Who can spend his life watching all these things that constantly repeat themselves, who can keep longing for nothing? Trusting in a God who isn't there?"Perhaps you need to be Dutch to get the most out of Nescio's writing, which is not only place- but culture-specific. Perhaps you need to have come to terms with the predictability as well as the occasional magnificence of all that flatness, to be comfortable with conformity. For Nescio's young Titans become respectable businessmen or, very touchingly in the 1942 story, an unemployed widower living only in the island of his memories. These are stories in which very little actually happens; there is pathos here, but little tragedy. Fortunately, though, there is also a good deal of gentle comedy: in his description of the eternal sponger Japi in The Freeloader, or in the suppressed eroticism of the Little Poet, for whom "the prettiest girls are always walking on the other side of the canal. And so his whole life turned into one long poem, and that can be tedious too."Joseph O'Neill, the author of NETHERLAND and Dutch raised himself, says in his introduction that "one reads Nescio in the first person plural; his voice speaks to all our selves." I would so much like to agree, but unfortunately I find these fragments easier to admire from a distance than to access for myself.
Brilliant heartbreaking stories from the 20th century master of Dutch Prose. These interconnected stories show the death of youthful ambition and idealism and the almost inevitable descent into disappointment, madness, and death. A great little book.
The description of The Netherlands and in particular Amsterdam takes the reader back into history. How life was and more importantly how the landscape and city looked like.
A translation from the original Dutch, I believe, the stories and characters appear flat to me. Even though I lived in Amsterdam and know the modern city fairly well, I cannot relate to the city as described in this book. It's a pity, because I don't speak Dutch well enough to read it in the original - it is supposed to be 'the most beautiful Dutch writing ever'.
Nescio's Amsterdam Stories presents almost the entire life's work of a barely known Dutch author. This gorgeous little translation is a slim volume of perfect prose that provides a fresh voice to American audiences. Nescio examines the interior lives of strong characters, all of whom seem to live with a quiet desperation. His writers never perfect the art of poesy. This strong authority in Nesico's narratives, and even stories as short as "The Valley of Obligations" accomplish a muted explosiveness and quiet rage in only a few sentences. Absolutely amazing, Amsterdam Stories seems to contain a life's work that holds great weight in a handful of words. My favorite piece in the collection was easily "Little Poet," as it reflects the difficulty of balancing love and connection with the insatiable hunger to create, create, create. These beautiful pieces beg to be reread, and beg the question of how much more he could have produced in his lifetime had he the time and energy. This concept is simply what spoke to me so profoundly and deeply by the time I finished.
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