biography
pronunciation:
[brahkman]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1922– )
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| biography:
| Writer, born in The Hague, W Netherlands. A company doctor, his first work was Een winterreis (1961, A Winter's Travel). His early work is reminiscent of Bordewijk, in that it has a grotesque and fantastic feel to it and often contains autobiographical elements. His baroque, ironical, and somewhat archaic style is very characteristic, and sometimes categorized as postmodernist, partly due to regular reference to literary masterpieces; it includes De bekentenis van de heer K. (1985, The Confession of Mr K.), which is inspired by the work of Franz Kafka. Brakman explained his own work in a number of essays collected in Een wak in het kroos (1983, An Ice-hole in the Duckweed) making his complicated work more accessible. In 1980 he received the P C Hooft-prijs. |
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