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• PoetryOf Reynaert the FoxVan den vos ReynaerdeAnonymous · 1260An animal satire of the thirteenth century, in which cunning triumphs without moral correction and in which no one, from the king to the clergy, comes out of the portrait unscathed.Literature
• EssayThe Praise of FollyMoriae EncomiumErasmus · 1511A paradoxical speech composed in jest for an English friend: the goddess Folly mocks the scholars, monks and princes of Christian Europe on the eve of the Reformation.Literature
• TheatreGranidaPieter Corneliszoon Hooft · 1605not translated into EnglishIn a conventional Persia, a pastoral sets the frankness of shepherds against the ambitions of the court.Literature
• TheatreThe Spanish BrabanterSpaanschen BrabanderGerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero · 1617The merchant Amsterdam to which refugees from the South flock, and where a sham nobleman clashes with the common people of the city.Literature
• TheatreLuciferJoost van den Vondel · 1654In heaven, before the fall of Adam, a tragedy of pride and jealousy among the angels.Literature
• PoetryKorenbloemenConstantijn Huygens · 1658not translated into EnglishA great servant of the Dutch State gathers in one volume what he wrote in his own language over more than forty years.Literature
• NovelHistorie van mejuffrouw Sara BurgerhartBetje Wolff and Aagje Deken · 1782not translated into EnglishIn the Dutch bourgeoisie of the Enlightenment, a young girl who flees a devout household learns, letter after letter, to choose her own life.Literature
• Short storiesCamera ObscuraNicolaas Beets (Hildebrand) · 1839not translated into EnglishBourgeois Holland around 1840, seen by a young narrator who sketches its failings with a tender irony.Literature
• NovelMax HavelaarMultatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker) · 1860In the Dutch East Indies of the mid-nineteenth century, a novel of nested narratives turns the good conscience of an Amsterdam merchant against the colonial system.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelEen liefdeLodewijk van Deyssel · 1887not translated into EnglishDutch middle-class society of the late nineteenth century, in which a young woman raised in ignorance expects everything from love.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelEline VereLouis Couperus · 1888The high society of The Hague at the end of the nineteenth century, where a young woman with no occupation expects everything from a dream or a marriage.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryMayMeiHerman Gorter · 1889A long poem of the Dutch spring, which makes a young girl named May the season itself and leads her along the shores and through the countryside of Holland.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryVerzenWillem Kloos · 1894not translated into EnglishDutch poetry of the 1880s, when a young generation gives the sonnet back its freedom and makes it the voice of an entirely personal emotion.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelA Posthumous ConfessionEen nagelaten bekentenisMarcellus Emants · 1894The Dutch bourgeoisie of the late nineteenth century, seen by a murderer who believes himself governed by his heredity and his milieu.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelThe Deeps of DeliveranceVan de koele meren des doodsFrederik van Eeden · 1900A psychological novel of 1900 about the descent of a woman of society, whom her upbringing and her marriage push towards drugs and the street, and about what may still raise her up again.LiteraturePublic domain
• TheatreThe Good HopeOp hoop van zegenHerman Heijermans · 1900The Dutch North Sea coast around 1900, where poverty drives men to sign on to ships known to be dangerous.LiteraturePublic domain
• Short filmDe mésaventure van een Fransch heertje zonder pantalon aan het strand te ZandvoortWilly Mullens · 1905A chase comedy filmed on a Dutch beach at the very beginning of the century, in which an undressed bather faces the crowd and the law.Cinema
• NarrativeThe FreeloaderDe uitvreterNescio · 1911The Amsterdam of young bohemians at the beginning of the twentieth century, where a boy refuses any trade and any ambition.Literature
• NovelAlienationWillem Mertens' levensspiegelJ. van Oudshoorn · 1914The consciousness of a clerk whom shame and loneliness cut off from everyone, in a Dutch city of the early twentieth century.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryEldoradoJan Jacob Slauerhoff · 1928not translated into EnglishThe world of sailors, buccaneers and discoverers, for whom dry land offers no tolerable place to live.Literature
• NovelTerug tot Ina DammanSimon Vestdijk · 1934not translated into EnglishA Frisian port at the beginning of the twentieth century, where a solitary schoolboy experiences his first love as a spell.Literature
• PoetryAwaterMartinus Nijhoff · 1934A long narrative poem of the thirties, in which the shadowing of a stranger through the modern city takes on the shape of an epic tale.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryEen winter aan zeeAdriaan Roland Holst · 1937not translated into EnglishA winter of dunes and sea, in which a man's abandonment by a woman is measured against the fall of Troy.Literature
• NovelCharacterKarakterFerdinand Bordewijk · 1938A great port between the wars, where a son's will is pitted against a father's harshness.Literature
• PoetryTempel en kruisHendrik Marsman · 1940not translated into EnglishAn autobiographical verse sequence, completed on the eve of the war, in which a poet takes stock of his path between antiquity and Christianity.Literature
• DiaryThe Diary of a Young GirlHet AchterhuisAnne Frank · 1947Amsterdam under the occupation, seen from a hiding place by a Jewish teenage girl.Literature
• NovelThe EveningsDe avondenGerard Reve · 1947The gloomy Amsterdam of the immediate post-war years, where an idle young man spends his evenings watching for the void.Literature
• NovelThe Black LakeOeroegHella S. Haasse · 1948Java in the last decades of the Dutch colony, where a childhood friendship runs up against the boundary between colonisers and colonised.Literature
• Feature filmHet wonderlijke leven van Willem ParelGerard Rutten · 1955A comedy of the fifties built on a radio creature that a whole country knew, and on an artist's fear of being swallowed up by the figure he himself created.Cinema
• NovelBitter HerbsHet bittere kruidMarga Minco · 1957The persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands, told at the level of one family and without ever naming what is felt.Literature
• NovelThe Darkroom of DamoclesDe donkere kamer van DamoklesWillem Frederik Hermans · 1958The occupied Netherlands, where a man obeys a double that only he can see and whose existence no one can vouch for.Literature
• Feature filmVillage by the RiverDorp aan de rivierFons Rademakers · 1958A village chronicle of Brabant around 1900, in which a doctor from the north disturbs those who hold sway over the region.Cinema
• Feature filmFanfareBert Haanstra · 1958A village comedy of the fifties that turns the rivalries of a Dutch waterside town into farce.Cinema
• Feature filmDe minder gelukkige terugkeer van Joszef Katús naar het land van RembrandtWim Verstappen · 1966Chronicle of a spring week in a capital where young people mock authority, crossed by a disoriented returnee.Cinema
• Feature filmObsessionsPim de la Parra · 1969An Amsterdam thriller of the late sixties, built on an opening cut through a partition wall, in which the wish to see turns into an investigation and endangers the one who watches.Cinema
• Feature filmTurkish DelightTurks fruitPaul Verhoeven · 1973Amsterdam at the end of the sixties, where the passion of a sculptor and a young woman is lived without any restraint.Cinema
• Feature filmThe Mark of the BeastHet teken van het beestPieter Verhoeff · 1980Reconstruction of a news item from the north in the twenties: a disliked loner takes in a married woman who has left her children, until the police come to his door in the countryside to fetch her.Cinema
• DiaryAn Interrupted LifeHet verstoorde levenEtty Hillesum · 1981Amsterdam under the German occupation, seen by a young woman who chooses the inner life in the face of persecution.Literature
• Feature filmThe Girl with the Red HairHet meisje met het rode haarBen Verbong · 1981Portrait of a student who leaves university for the armed struggle, in a grey country where ordinary life stands right next to the war.Cinema
• NovelThe AssaultDe aanslagHarry Mulisch · 1982A man spends forty years understanding one night in January 1945, when the chance of a location decided the death of his family.Literature
• Feature filmThe IllusionistDe IllusionistJos Stelling · 1983A silent tale in which a stage performer reenacts his childhood as a miller's son, and in which dream, memory and sleight of hand cease to be distinct.Cinema
• Feature filmBrandende liefdeAte de Jong · 1983A love chronicle of a young painter and the married model who sits for him, in a bourgeois Amsterdam where everything plays out between a rented room and a staircase.Cinema
• Feature filmThe LiftDe liftDick Maas · 1983Horror in an office tower, where an ordinary machine starts deciding who goes up and who goes down, and where the man sent to repair it becomes the one it is waiting for.Cinema
• Feature filmEen dagje naar het strandTheo van Gogh · 1984A day at the seaside for a father who drinks and his little girl, where tenderness and disaster advance in step.Cinema
• Feature filmCiske de RatGuido Pieters · 1984The childhood of an Amsterdam kid in the thirties, between a mother who bullies him, a father away at sea and a school that has already written him off.Cinema
• Feature filmAbelAlex van Warmerdam · 1986An icy comedy about a grown son who will not step out of the door, and a family in which each holds the other by what he hides from him.Cinema
• Feature filmThe VanishingSpoorloosGeorge Sluizer · 1988The disappearance of a young woman at a French motorway rest area, and the obsession of the man who is left behind, for whom not knowing becomes more unbearable than anything else.Cinema
• Feature filmLeedvermaakFrans Weisz · 1989A Jewish wedding in Amsterdam where three generations meet, and where what the war did to the parents can be read in what the children cannot say.Cinema
• Feature filmToughJan Rap en z'n maatIne Schenkkan · 1989An Amsterdam home for adolescents who have broken with their families, where young qualified social workers discover what their studies had not told them.Cinema
• Feature filmZelfbeklagCyrus Frisch · 1993A beginner's filmed reply to a critic's remark, in which it soon becomes unclear which of the two is making a spectacle of himself.Cinema

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