Nescio (1882–1961)
Forfatter af Amsterdam Stories
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Image credit: Nescio, J.H.F. Grönloh, in 1917
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'Heimwee' en andere fragmenten 12 eksemplarer
De uitvreter ; Titaantjes en andere verhalen 8 eksemplarer
Insula dei 8 eksemplarer
Nescio: De uitvreter historisch-kritische uitgave met commentaar over de genese van verhaal en verhaalfiguur; Deel 1:… 3 eksemplarer
Nescio 3 eksemplarer
De Uitvreter / Titaantjes / Mene tekel 2 eksemplarer
Nescio en het voorjaar in Zuid-Limburg 2 eksemplarer
And yet, and yet... 2 eksemplarer
Het dal der plichten 2 eksemplarer
In Haarlem hevige regen, daarna in Amsterdam weer zon 2 eksemplarer
Weemoed & ingesteld zijn op 1 eksemplar
Pierwsze wzruszenie 1 eksemplar
Op een zomermorgen om half vijf, toen de zon prachtig opkwam, is hij van de waalbrug gestapt 1 eksemplar
Een briefwisseling met Nescio — Forfatter — 1 eksemplar
Nescio 1 eksemplar
Over zondagsscholen en waldhoorns 1 eksemplar
Fullesies 1 eksemplar
Kyrie eleison 1 eksemplar
Paard onder pet 1 eksemplar
Weet u... 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
De Nederlandse en Vlaamse literatuur vanaf 1880 in 250 verhalen (2005) — Bidragyder — 74 eksemplarer
De Nederlandse en Vlaamse literatuur vanaf 1880 in 60 lange verhalen (2006) — Bidragyder — 39 eksemplarer
Nederland leest : de mooiste korte verhalen - Zuid-Holland leest (2015) — Bidragyder — 10 eksemplarer
'Van u heb ik ook een heleboel gelezen...' : tien kronkels van S. Carmiggelt over Nescio (1993) — honoree — 9 eksemplarer
Nederland leest : de mooiste korte verhalen - Gelderland leest — Bidragyder — 8 eksemplarer
Nederland leest : de mooiste korte verhalen - Noord-Brabant leest (2015) — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer
Nederland leest : de mooiste korte verhalen - Noord-Holland leest (2015) — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer
Nederland leest : de mooiste korte verhalen - Groningen leest — Bidragyder — 4 eksemplarer
Nederland leest de mooiste korte verhalen — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
Nederland leest : de mooiste korte verhalen - Fryslân leest — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
Nederland leest : de mooiste korte verhalen - Flevoland leest — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
Nederland leest : de mooiste korte verhalen - Limburg leest — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
Nederland leest : de mooiste korte verhalen - Zeeland leest — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
Nederland leest : de mooiste korte verhalen - Drenthe leest — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Nederland leest : de mooiste korte verhalen - Overijssel leest — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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- Kanonisk navn
- Nescio
- Juridisk navn
- Grönloh, Jan Hendrik Frederik (Frits)
- Andre navne
- Nescio
- Fødselsdato
- 1882-06-22
- Dødsdag
- 1961-07-25
- Begravelsessted
- Nieuwe Oosterbegraafplaats, Amsterdam, Noord-holland, Nederland | Graf 79-3-0119
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Nederland
- Fødested
- Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
- Dødssted
- Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland | Sanatorium Zonnestraal
- Bopæl
- Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
- Uddannelse
- Driejarige H.B.S. | Mauritskade | Amsterdam
Openbare Handelsschool | Keizersgracht | Amsterdam - Erhverv
- Kantoorbediende (1899-1904) bij diverse handelsondernemingen
Secretaris (1900) van de zangvereniging Sweelinck
Koopman (1904-1926) bij de Holland-Bombay Trading Company
Administrateur (1906-1907) van De Pionier, Algemeen Weekblad van de Vereeniging Gemeenschappelijk Grondbezit
Directeur (1926-1937) van de Holland-Bombay Trading Company
Adviseur (1938-1948) van de Holland-Bombay Trading Company - Relationer
- Kollewijn, Roeland Anthonie (leraar Nederlands op de H.B.S.)
Eeden, Frederik van (de man die de Sarphatistraat de mooiste plek van Europa vond; kolonie Walden) - Organisationer
- Debatingclub GOHV (Gedachtenwisseling Ontwikkelt Het Verstand) | Mede-oprichter en lid (1899-1901)
Kolonie Tames bij Huizen | Medestichter en lid (1901-1903) - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Marianne Philips-prijs 1954 voor gehele oeuvre
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Nescio's gift is for focusing on the city as a living, breathing, and sometimes temperamental character in its own right. He also has a fine touch for characterization and interior conflict; many characters recur in the tales collected here, and the Künstlerroman themes are evident in nearly all of the stories. Nescio's focus on youth, on freedom, and on dreams is idyllic at times and then crushed by the harsh realities of maturation, external factors, and the world at large.
One of his strongest stories, "Little Poet," handles all of his usual themes with a highly nuanced awareness of war, infidelity, and the diminishing role of the artist in modern life. Nescio's increased attention to issues of gender and how these relate to his concerns from this story onward show an immense shift in his treatment, widening the scope, and leaving at least this reader hungry for more of his stories to be translated into English.
"The Freeloader" and "Young Titans"—which, along with "Little Poet," are the longest of Nescio's tales—are also remarkable, the first being stronger for its Melvillean misanthropy. Of the other tales collected here, only "The Writing on the Wall" and "Out Along the IJ" are weak; whether this is due to their rather short length (Nescio appears to need much longer canvases to unfold his narratives, except for two I'll mention below) or merely because they were sketches for other work, I can't say. What I can say is that his extremely short "The Valley of Obligations" is the closest to modernist prose poetry Nescio comes in a prescient way, and "The End" is apocalyptic in its Künstlerroman pessimism, its antebellum anxieties, and its aesthetic simplicity, both stories proving that Nescio worked brilliantly in shorter forms as well as longer novella-length tales.
Youth, dreams, life, love, loss, and the unrelenting realities of the world at large. All of this and the shifting, sometimes alien and sometimes intimate city of Amsterdam as a backdrop—Nescio's tales are timeless and all too ready for a new generation of readers.… (mere)