- Published: 15 May 2012
- ISBN: 9781590174920
- Imprint: NY Review Books
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 176
- RRP: $40.00
Amsterdam Stories
Buy from…
- Published: 15 May 2012
- ISBN: 9781590174920
- Imprint: NY Review Books
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 176
- RRP: $40.00
"His utter simplicity goes hand-in-hand with a great command of humour, irony, matter-of-factness, understatement and sentiment (never sentimentality or self-pity) all of which miraculously balance each other out. . . . Nescio is essentially a lyricist, a poet writing in prose." --Dutch Foundation for Literature "In every respect the work of Nescio represents an exception to the calm, bourgeois realism of the early twentieth century. . . . He was arguably the most non-conformist writer of his time. . . . In his stories Nescio created a number of extraordinary characters, who have become legendary in Dutch culture." --Theo Hermans, A Literary History of the Low Countries