Back to Their Desks
Benjamin Moser: Nescio, 23 May 2013
Amsterdam Stories
by Nescio, translated by Damion Searls.
NYRB, 161 pp., £7.99, May 2012,978 1 59017 492 0 Show More
by Nescio, translated by Damion Searls.
NYRB, 161 pp., £7.99, May 2012,
“... reading them is anything but gloomy. And credit for this belongs nearly as much to the translator, Damion Searls, as to Nescio himself. Partly this has to do with a historical peculiarity of the Dutch language. Nescio, according to Eyckens, bore ‘the heavy influence of his Dutch teacher, Mr R.A. Kollewijn, founder of simplified spelling’. The ... ”