Internationale Neerlandistiek - Volume 58, Issue 3, 2020

Abstract Despite his growing popularity, the Dutch writer Auke Hulst (1975), whose oeuvre ranges from multimedia travel books to science fiction-like novels, has remained under-researched in academic scholarship. This paper provides an introduction to this author and an analysis of his work, examining Hulst’s self-presentation, his poetics, his (non-)fictional books and his place within contemporary Dutch literature. The image Read More

Abstract In this article the position of Hungarian Nobel laureate Imre Kertész (1929-2016) in the Dutch literary field will be analysed based on Even-Zohar’s polysystem theory and its previous implementation in the field of Dutch literary studies. It will be shown how the initial reception of Kertész’s works was enthusiastic but limited – Kertész quickly ‘made a name for himself’ in cultural circles, but was not widely discussed Read More