biography
pronunciation:
[mah(r)sman]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1899–1940)
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| biography:
| Poet and novelist, born in Zeist, WC Netherlands. He studied law in Utrecht, became a lawyer, and worked for several newspapers and magazines, including the Forum. His early work was expressionist, virile, passionate, and powerful, and his poems express a passion for life which is a transformed fear of, or hatred for, death. In his last work this motive changes into an acceptance of the end of life. His novels were not very successful. He translated the work of Gide, and also Nietzsche's Also sprach Zarathustra. In 1940 he was killed when the ship on which he tried to flee to Britain was torpedoed by the Germans. |
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