Amsterdam Stories by Nescio
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Overview: 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.
Nescio should have gotten here (English speaking world) long ago. His work converged with many aspects of American literature and culture. The ragtag circle of artists at the center of his stories could have hung out with Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty….Nescio’s absence from our literature is most surprising because of the crushing beauty of his work…. Amsterdam Stories is a book of landscape. It is about what words the mind hears when the eyes are truly open, seeing the world as a reason to create.
—Josh Cook, The Millions
A valuable introduction to a significant Dutch writer.
—Publishers Weekly
Though he published few stories, his position in Dutch literature is a very special one.
—Cassell’s Encyclopedia of World Literature
Genre: Literary Fiction
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