Amsterdam Tales

by Paul Vincent, Helen Constantine (Editor)

Overview

Paul Vincent presents a compelling collection of prose fiction, memoirs, and anecdotes centering on Amsterdam from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first century, which gives unique insight into the history and culture of the city. The tales within range from Rembrandt to the Jewish persecution in World War 2, from barricades in a working-class district during the Depression to a writer's unhealthy obsession with a massage parlour. These eighteen newly translated works give the reader, and the traveller, a tantalising glimpse of the Amsterdam that lies beyond the tourist guidebooks.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198806493
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/13/2017
Series:	City Tales
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Helen Constantine

Paul Vincent studied Modern Languages at Cambridge University and Dutch at Amsterdam. From 1967 to 1989 he was Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer, in Dutch, first at Bedford College and afterwards at University College London. Since 1989 he has worked as a freelance translator.

Table of Contents

-Vondel in Hiding by Gerard Brandt
-Rembrandt Catches a Pupil Red-Handed by Arnold Houbraken
-Spinoza is Banned from the Jewish Community by J. Colerus
-Peter the Great as a Ship's Carpenter by J.C. Nomen
-An Opponent inveighs against the Tram by W. Otto
-Amstel by Herman Heijermans
-The Black Cat by Jacob Israël de Haan
-Barricades in the Jordaan by Anonymous
-Amsterdam 1945-1946 by Frans Pointl
-Itchy Feet by Simon Carmiggelt
-Single to Amsterdam by Remco Campert
-Letter to my Grandson by Abel J. Herzberg
-Goldfish by Anton Valens
-Who's Afraid of Allah Akbar? by Pieter Olde Rikkert
-He Directs the Traffic by Sanneke van Hassel
-Massage Parlour by Thomas Heerma van Voss
-A Stroke of Luck by Margriet de Moor
-Pain in the Spleen by Robert Anker