Title: Literatuur
Subtitle: Een spel zonder grenzen
First published: 1991
Description: Six essays on themes and tendencies in world literature, followed by 153 explanatory notes. The book includes passages from a long interview of the author with Umberto Eco. in 1971, in which the now famous italian writer, then still an employee of the Milanese editorial house Bompiani, and seven years before he started writing "Il nome della rosa", insists that he does not harbour any literary ambitions.
Subjects: Literature, History and criticism
People: Zuster Bertken, Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), Umberto Eco (1932-2016), Mishima, Dazat, Boccaccio, Gezelle, Iriarte, Bilderdijk, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ (1809-1852), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
LC classification: PN512 .J65 1991