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Stacey Knecht
Translations by Stacey Knecht
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by Hugo Claus
Translated by Stacey Knecht
Original title: Het verlangen
If Hugo Claus is Belgium’s main contender for the Nobel Prize, it is on account of novels like Desire, which fairly creak at the seams with significance although they are nevertheless a bit short on intellectual rigour. At the same time it is a rather good joke played on two literatures. (more...) |
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by Marga Minco
Translated by Stacey Knecht
Original title: De glazen brug
Like Marga Minco’s other novels, The Glass Bridge is a short, lucid and beautifully crafted piece of work that always says rather more than the words on the page reveal. Every sentence, each scene, is exactly and clearly drawn, but the recurring echoes, (more...) |
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by Marcel Moring
Translated by Stacey Knecht
Original title: Het grote verlangen
Overtly Jewish themes dominate Marcel Möring’s prize-winning first novel, Mendels Erfenis (Mendel’s Inheritance, 1990) and his third, In Babylon (1997). This, his second, he has described as ‘an urban novel, like a road movie’. In each of his novels, (more...) |
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by Marcel Moring
Translated by Stacey Knecht
Original title: In Babylon
From one point of view the novel is a postmodernist whodunnit which, true to form, refuses to disclose what it’s all about. Most of the characters are dead before the action starts. They include two seventeenth-century ghostly ancestors from Poland, (more...) |
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by Anke de Vries
Translated by Stacey Knecht
Original title: Blauwe plekken
This is a novel about child abuse, its psychological and social causes, and its effect on the children who are at the receiving end. It is also a novel about self-discovery. Twelve-year-old Judith lives with her little brother Dennis and her emotionally unstable mother in a house in The Hague. (more...) |
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