Nescio (1882–1961)
Autore di Amsterdam Stories
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Nescio, J.H.F. Grönloh, in 1917
Serie
Opere di Nescio
'Heimwee' en andere fragmenten 12 copie
Insula dei 8 copie
Nescio 3 copie
And yet, and yet... 2 copie
Het dal der plichten 2 copie
Weemoed & ingesteld zijn op 1 copia
Pierwsze wzruszenie 1 copia
Op een zomermorgen om half vijf, toen de zon prachtig opkwam, is hij van de waalbrug gestapt 1 copia
Een briefwisseling met Nescio — Autore — 1 copia
Nescio 1 copia
Fullesies 1 copia
Kyrie eleison 1 copia
Paard onder pet 1 copia
Weet u... 1 copia
Opere correlate
De Nederlandse en Vlaamse literatuur vanaf 1880 in 60 lange verhalen (2006) — Collaboratore — 39 copie
'Van u heb ik ook een heleboel gelezen...' : tien kronkels van S. Carmiggelt over Nescio (1993) — honoree — 9 copie
Nederland leest : de mooiste korte verhalen - Gelderland leest — Collaboratore — 7 copie
Nederland leest : de mooiste korte verhalen - Groningen leest — Collaboratore — 4 copie
Nederland leest de mooiste korte verhalen — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Nederland leest : de mooiste korte verhalen - Fryslân leest — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Nederland leest : de mooiste korte verhalen - Limburg leest — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Nederland leest : de mooiste korte verhalen - Zeeland leest — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Nederland leest : de mooiste korte verhalen - Drenthe leest — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Nederland leest : de mooiste korte verhalen - Overijssel leest — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Nederland leest : de mooiste korte verhalen - Flevoland leest — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Nescio
- Nome legale
- Grönloh, Jan Hendrik Frederik (Frits)
- Altri nomi
- Nescio
- Data di nascita
- 1882-06-22
- Data di morte
- 1961-07-25
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Nieuwe Oosterbegraafplaats, Amsterdam, Noord-holland, Nederland | Graf 79-3-0119
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Nederland
- Luogo di nascita
- Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
- Luogo di morte
- Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland | Sanatorium Zonnestraal
- Luogo di residenza
- Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
- Istruzione
- Driejarige H.B.S. | Mauritskade | Amsterdam
Openbare Handelsschool | Keizersgracht | Amsterdam - Attività lavorative
- 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 - Relazioni
- 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) - Organizzazioni
- Debatingclub GOHV (Gedachtenwisseling Ontwikkelt Het Verstand) | Mede-oprichter en lid (1899-1901)
Kolonie Tames bij Huizen | Medestichter en lid (1901-1903) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Marianne Philips-prijs 1954 voor gehele oeuvre
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 39
- Opere correlate
- 20
- Utenti
- 1,040
- Popolarità
- #24,755
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 22
- ISBN
- 63
- Lingue
- 5
- Preferito da
- 11
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.… (altro)