| Geerten Meijsing |
Dutch novelist, born 1950.
Main themes: beauty, sex, the liberal arts, music, retorics, painting, mental illnesses (especially depression and borderline), Plato (The Unwritten Doctrines), Italy, educational problems, blind guide dogs, literary life, Sicily, philosophy, loneliness, friendship, love and death, mainly in the form of suicide.
Has translated a score of his favorite authors: Pétrus Borel, Chateaubriand, Arthur-Joseph de Gobineau, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Gustave Flaubert, Marcel Proust, Stendhal, Norman Douglas, Cyril Connolly, George Gissing, Frederick Rolfe, Charles Baudelaire, Paul Morand, Annie Ernaux, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Igor Strawinsky, Andrew Holleran, Giorgio Colli, etc. |
| Rails: |
| "Geerten Meijsing is without any doubt the best Dutch novelist today." (Bert Natter) |
| OPZIJ |
| "In his novels Geerten Meijsing gives you the essence of womanhood." (Daniëlle Serdijn) |
| Vrij Nederland |
| "The Erwin-trilogy is the King James' Bible of decadence and spleen." (Gerrit Komrij) |
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| last update: 25 Febbraio 2007 |
| 'Soon he started to collect, and thereby rescue once and for all, the words and phrases most amenable to his theory' (Stephen Hero) |
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