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Amsterdam Stories (New York Review Books Classics)

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Amsterdam Stories (New York Review Books Classics)

No one has written more feelingly and more beautifully than Nescio about the madness and sadness, courage and vulnerability of youth: its big plans and vague longings, not to mention the binges, crashes, and marathon walks and talks. No one, for that matter, has written with such pristine clarity about the radiating canals of Amsterdam and the cloud-swept landscape of the Netherlands.

Who was Nescio? Nescioâ€”Latin for â€œI donâ€™t knowâ€â€”was the pen name of J.H.F. GrÃ¶nloh, the highly successful director of the Hollandâ€“Bombay Trading Company and a father of fourâ€”someone who knew more than enough about respectable maturity. Only in his spare time and under the cover of a pseudonym, as if commemorating a lost self, did he let himself go, producing over the course of his lifetime a handful of utterly original stories that contain some of the most luminous pages in modern literature.

This is the first English translation of Nescioâ€™s stories.
Country USA
Brand New York Review of Books
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Paperback
Color Grey
ReleaseDate 2012-03-20
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781590174920

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