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Geerten Meijsing
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Prime years: when one says of an ancient author floruit.
With The Grachtengordel, a modern version of New Grub Street, I became completely estranged from the Dutch (= cheap) literary scene. Almost nobody could appreciate the satirical genre. Book deals with changing conditions in publishing and literary images. Apart from being funny it makes good literary history of the nineties.
The Unwritten Doctrines is a scholarly mystery thriller, argumenting that Socrates never existed. At the same time a historical study, complete with elaborate and reliable apparatus, on the life of Plato, about whom we know absolutely nothing. I am working on a scientific presentation of my theses. The Unwritten Doctrines is a ciphered novel: as in all my other novels I count my words, beginning with a total sum (144.000 in this case), and then slicing it up, like the Demiurg in the Timaeus, into harmonic and meaningfull bits that are set against each other and the whole in musical and architectonic intervals.
Christmas in the Cathedral is a filmish murder story.
The Palms of Amsterdam a higly entertaining correspondence. |
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