Piet Paaltjens [François Haverschmidt.

Student poetry 1958 | Snikken en glimlachjes. Academische Poezie van Piet Paaltjens, Van Holkema & Warendorf NV Amsterdam, 1958, 80 pp.

Name: Student poetry 1958 | Snikken en glimlachjes. Academische Poezie van Piet Paaltjens, Van Holkema &amp; Warendorf NV Amsterdam, 1958, 80 pp.
SKU: 57061-1
Price: 10.90 EUR
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A twentieth-century edition of one of the most celebrated collections of Dutch student poetry, originally published in 1867. Written by François Haverschmidt (1835–1894) under the pseudonym Piet Paaltjens, the poems combine Romantic melancholy, absurd humour, irony and playful satire.

Inspired by nineteenth-century student life in Leiden, the collection affectionately mocks exaggerated romantic emotions, unrequited love and youthful despair. Haverschmidt’s fictional persona, the melancholy student Piet Paaltjens, became one of the most memorable characters in Dutch literary history.

An appealing edition of a classic of Dutch humorous and student literature.

Original hardcover dustjacket in good condition.

[NL] Een klassieker uit de Nederlandse studentenliteratuur, waarin Piet Paaltjens romantische liefdesverdriet en studentikoze melancholie op geestige wijze op de hak neemt.

SKU: 57061-1

€ 10,90 (€ 10,00 ex. btw)

In stock