The Dedalus Book of Dutch Fantasy

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The Dedalus Book of Dutch Fantasy is the most ambitious and wide-ranging anthology of Dutch fiction ever to appear in English, and reads like the Who's Who of Dutch Literature, with stories by the undisputed contemporary masters such as Gerard Reve and Harry Mulisch, and classic authors such as Couperus, Van Schendel and Vestdijk, as well as many of the rising stars of the younger generation; Frans Kellendonk, A.F.TH. Van Der Heijden and P.F. Thomese.

The stereotype of the Dutch that most immediately springs to mind is that of a clean, orderly, and down-to-earth people. Richard Huijing reveals the other side of this society; that of a dark netherworld of the macabre, the weird, the perverted, the violent and the fancifully impossible conjured up by a host of the finest writers in the Dutch language of the last hundred years.

contents

INTRODUCTION 9
STORIES
Arnold Aletrino In the Dark 15
Jan Arends Breakfast 24
Maarten Asscher The Secret of Dr Raoul Sarrazin 38
Belcampo Funeral Rites 49
Huub Beurskens Highest Honours 63
J. M. A. Biesheuvel Biker at Sea 74
Willem Brakman The Gospel According to Chabot 78
Remco Campert The Disappearance of Bertje S. 97
Louis Couperus Bluebeard's Daughter 100
The Son of Don Juan 106
Johan Andreas Der The Sacred Butterfly 112
Mouw
Lodewijk van Deyssel Curious Things on the Plain 118
Inez van Dullemen After the Hurricane 120
Jacob Israel de Haan Concerning the Experiences of Helens Marie Golesco 130
Fritzi Harmsen van Beek The Taxi Pig 139
Marcus Heeresma Dumping Ground 142
A. F. Th. van der Pompeii Funebri 155
Heijden
Jan Hofker Rustler 169
Frans Kellendonk Death and Life of Thomas Chatterton 171
Anton Koolhaas Baldur D. Quorg, Spider 183
Frans Kusters The Full Diagnosis 198
Harry Mulisch Decorated Man 202
Caret van Nievelt Souls Errant 218
Helene Nolthenius Looking Back: the Weapon 228
Gerard Reve Werther Nieland 232
Arthur van Schendel The White Woman 283
Willem Schurmann The Unbalanced King 288
Jan Siebelink Affection 309
P. F. Thomese Leviathan 319
Simon Vestdijk The Stone Face 350
Jan Wolkers Feathered Friends 359
NOTES ON THE AUTHORS 373

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Huijing is a well known Dutch author

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