Literary Guide to Netherlands literature
Dutch national news, posted November 30th, 2006
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Very interesting overview of the “essentials” of Dutch literature, published by Salon.com:
For a country that was once the global capital of the publishing industry, it’s extraordinary how little the Netherlands has influenced world literature. Most of the canonical writers of Dutch fiction are unknown outside Holland; many are untranslated. From a traveler’s point of view, this is wonderful. Nothing could be more tedious than arriving in a new country with a suitcase full of preconceptions about its culture, drawn from world-famous novels already reduced to cliché by generations of English-language critics. […]
Read full article: Salon.com, 30 November 2006
