Geerten Meijsing
Work in Progress |
| A Victim of Circumstances |
My novel about the riddles and secrets surrounding the life of George Gissing is reaching its completion. It is with this unhappy and struggling writer - the giant of late victorian literature - that I have been identifying myself all my life. The 'Gissing-Syndrome' is the craving for the love of an equal, while finding only satisfaction with low life women. Gissing was classless, atheist, extremely erudite, sexually high strung, restless and very cynical and funny in his writings. His criminal profile fits Jack the Ripper.
'I wished it were mine to wander endlessly amid the silence of the ancient world, to-day and all its sounds forgotten.' |
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| Tragic Heroines |
Tragic Heroines is my book of odes for these modern favourites of mine. In line with the tradition of Hesiod and Ovid, the book consists of poetic letters to, from, or about Lee Miller, Jean Seberg, Marie-Jo Simenon, Isabelle Eberhardt, Pauline Réage, Marie Nimier, Karen Bach, Marie Trintignant, and some others.
The female condition is basically a tragic one. When I sing my song, I always return to these unhappy icons of life swarthed. |
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| Empty Property |
| A new novel about the strife surrounding empty possessions. |
| Work in Progress |
On this page I only show works already or almost completed, in the process of printing often.
The two covers are, like I always do (except in the Querido case), rough outlines of how I want the looks of the books. Like Françoise Dorléac says in CUL-DE-SAC about the strong liquor she drinks from the bottle: "I made it myself!" |
| On The Other Hand |
On The Other Hand (Anderzijds) I am writing this great novel about a writer investigating the circumstances that have led to his own downfall. French title Cul-de-sac. Lot of dead persons are talking here, the main witness being Frederick Rolfe aka Baron Corvo.
This book forms a double decker with my Gissing book, Rolfe and Gissing being my two heroes, as far as writers go. |
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