Ferdinand Bordewijk
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Ferdinand Bordewijk (10 October 1884 – 28 April 1965) was a Dutch author. His style, which is terse and symbolic, is considered to belong to New Objectivity and magic realism. He was awarded the P. C. Hooft Award in 1953 and the Constantijn Huygens Prize in 1957. He wrote novels and short stories; of his novels, his 1938 Character is canonical in the Netherlands, and was the basis for a 1997 film of the same name.[1]
Biography
Ferdinand Bordewijk was born in Amsterdam, and moved with his family to The Hague when he was ten. He studied law at Leiden University. After graduation, he worked first at a Rotterdam law firm and became an independent lawyer in Schiedam in 1919, remaining an inhabitant of The Hague all of his life. He was married to the composer Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman. He wrote the libretto for her opera Rotonde (1941).[2]
Works
His first published work was a volume of poetry titled Script error: No such module "Lang". ("Mushrooms") under the pseudonym Ton Ven. It was not particularly well received.
His breakthrough came with the short novels Script error: No such module "Lang". ("Blocks", 1931), Script error: No such module "Lang". ("Growling Animals", 1933) and Bint (1934), later frequently published together as a set of three, followed by the longer works Script error: No such module "Lang". ("Red Palace", 1936) and Script error: No such module "Lang". (1938, translated into English as Character in 1966). Script error: No such module "Lang". was a dystopian work which was perceived as a criticism of communism. It is comparable to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, which appeared one year later and which Bordewijk deemed to be junk ("Script error: No such module "Lang".").Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Bibliography
- 1916 – Script error: No such module "Lang". (under the pseudonym Ton Ven)
- 1918 – Script error: No such module "Lang". (A king of the phrase) in: Groot Nederland
- 1919 – Script error: No such module "Lang". (Fantastic tales), short stories
- 1923 – Script error: No such module "Lang". (Fantastic tales II), short stories
- 1924 – Script error: No such module "Lang". (Fantastic tales III), short stories
- 1931 – Script error: No such module "Lang". (Cubes), novel
- 1933 – Script error: No such module "Lang". (novel)
- 1934 – Script error: No such module "Lang". (novel)
- 1935 – Script error: No such module "Lang". (The last honor, eulogy)
- 1935 – Script error: No such module "Lang".
- 1936 – Script error: No such module "Lang". (Red palace, downfall of the century)
- 1936 – Script error: No such module "Lang".
- 1937 – Script error: No such module "Lang". (short stories)
- 1938 – Script error: No such module "Lang". (novel); English translation: Character, from Dutch by E. M. Prince; London, Peter Owen, 1966, etc. Filmed as 1997 Dutch/Belgian film, directed by Mike van Diem.
- 1940 – Script error: No such module "Lang".
- 1940 – Script error: No such module "Lang". (Three plays)
- 1941 – Apollyon
- 1946 – Script error: No such module "Lang". (Oaks of Dodona)
- 1946 – Script error: No such module "Lang".
- 1947 – Script error: No such module "Lang". (By gaslight)
- 1947 – Script error: No such module "Lang". (Five fantastic tales)
- 1948 – Script error: No such module "Lang".
- 1948 – Script error: No such module "Lang". (Plato's death, symphonic poem)
- 1948 – Script error: No such module "Lang". (opera)
- 1949 – Script error: No such module "Lang"., Bint (Cubes, grunting animals, Bint), compilation
- 1949 – Script error: No such module "Lang".
- 1949 – Script error: No such module "Lang".
- 1949 – Script error: No such module "Lang".
- 1950 – Script error: No such module "Lang". (Tales from the other side)
- 1951 – Script error: No such module "Lang".
- 1951 – Script error: No such module "Lang".
- 1952 – Script error: No such module "Lang".
- 1954 – Script error: No such module "Lang".
- 1954 – Script error: No such module "Lang". (Misses and mister Richebois; twenty short stories)
- 1955 – Script error: No such module "Lang". (compendium)
- 1955 – Script error: No such module "Lang".
- 1955 – Script error: No such module "Lang".
- 1956 – Script error: No such module "Lang".
- 1956 – Script error: No such module "Lang". (play)
- 1956 – Script error: No such module "Lang". (Ten stories)
- 1957 – Script error: No such module "Lang". (Idem; ten parodies)
- 1958 – Script error: No such module "Lang".
- 1959 – Script error: No such module "Lang". (The gypsies; twelve short stories and a sketch)
- 1960 – Script error: No such module "Lang". (Centre of silence; five stories)
- 1961 – Script error: No such module "Lang". (Faraway tidings)
- 1961 – Script error: No such module "Lang". (under the pseudonym Ton Ven)
- 1964 – Script error: No such module "Lang". (Spring, seven stories)
- 1964 – Script error: No such module "Lang". (under the pseudonym Ton Ven)
- 1965 – Script error: No such module "Lang".
- 1981 – Script error: No such module "Lang".
- 1982 – Script error: No such module "Lang". (Seven fantastic tales)
- 1982–1991 – Script error: No such module "Lang". (Complete works, thirteen parts)
- 1983 – Script error: No such module "Lang". (Five little stories)
See also
References
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- ↑ Hans Anten, Het non plus ultra in Nederlands proza. S. Vestdijk en F. Bordewijk over elkaar; In: Het oog van de meester. Vestdijk-jaarboek 1998. Amsterdam 1998, pp. 98–110. In Dutch.
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- Augustinus P. Dierick: "Aspects of Myth in Ferdinand Bordewijk's Karakter. In: The Low Countries: Multidisciplinary Studies (ed. Margriet Bruijn Lacy). Lanham, New York, London: University Press of America, 1990, 147-155.