Ton Anbeek

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Ton Anbeek

Ton Anbeek , actually Anthonie Gerrit Hendrik Anbeek van der Meijden (born September 18, 1944 in Ede ) is a Dutch author and literary scholar.

Life

Anbeek van der Meijden studied Dutch literature at the University of Amsterdam , where he worked at the university. Under August Lammert Sötemann (1920–2002) he received his doctorate on January 1, 1978 at the University of Utrecht with the thesis De schrijver tussen de coulissen over de verschuivingen van het vertellersperspectief in het proza ​​van hetund van de 19de eeuw (freely translated into German: Der The author switches between the scenes to the perspective of the first-person narrator in prose of the late 19th century ) to the doctor of literature. After a brief period in Utrecht, he lectured for a year in the USA and was appointed as the successor to Hans Gomperts (1915–1998) by royal resolution on January 5, 1982 as professor of literature at the University of Leiden .

His teaching position included modern Dutch literature from the Romantic period to the present day. He took up his post on March 1, 1982 and gave the inaugural address on October 15, 1982 In puinhopen voel ik mij prettig, otherwise hoor ik niet thuis. Over de neither opbouw van de Nederlandse literatuurgeschiedschrijving . In September 2005 he retired from his professorship, and on September 27, 2005 he gave the farewell speech De jaren Zestig en de literatuur of: Is cultuurgeschiedenis mogelijk? (freely translated into German: The sixties and literature or: Is cultural history possible? ) held. His successor was Jacob Leendert Goedegebuure (1947–) and he himself went to the University of Padua as a lecturer in 2005 , where he gave lectures on Dutch and Flemish literature for a year.

Anbeek became known for his call to "street noise" in Dutch literature, criticizing the lack of reflections on everyday life and current events in many Dutch novels.

Works

  • Ik heb al een boek. 1975, with Jan Fontijn
  • Literature in changing. 1981
  • De naturalistic roman in Nederland. 1982
  • Na de oorlog: de Nederlandse roman 1945-1960. 1986
  • Gemeenschap. 1987 (novel)
  • Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse literatuur 1885-1985. 1990, 1999
  • Sisyfus passed. 1990 (novel)
  • Another leven. 1992 (novel)
  • Het donkere hart: romantic obsessies in de modern Nederlandstalige literatuur. 1996
  • Vast. 2009 (novel)

literature

  • H. Beukers: Album Scholasticum academiae lugduno-batavae MCMLXXV-MCMLXXXIX. (1975-1989), Leids University Fund, Leiden, 1991
  • GJ van Bork: Schrijvers en Dichters. 2001 ( dbnl biografieënproject , Dutch)

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