Frederik van Eeden , 1860-1932, Dutch novelist and poet, a practicing physician. He founded a cooperative farm colony (1898). His work is pervaded by deep mysticism; best known is the novel trilogy De kleine Johannes (1885-1906, tr. The Quest, 1907). His dramas include the tragicomedy Ijsbrand (1908, tr. Ysbrand, 1910).
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Records detail illness of artist's brother
Chicago Sun-Times; 5/13/1991; 392 words;
Newly discovered hospital records of Theo Van Gogh paint a portrait of a person whose ... for the 33-year-old brother of Vincent Van Gogh, which had been lost for 100 years ... translation of the records prepared by Sjraar van Heugten, research curator of the Vincent Van Gogh Museum in Amdsterdam. This ...
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A "bloody dark pastryman": Cormac McCarthy's recipe for gunpowder and historical fiction in 'Blood Meridian.'
The Mississippi Quarterly; 9/22/1993; Sepich, John Emil; 8053 words;
... you not, Johannes? Satan asks the little Dutch boy in Frederik van Eeden's novel De kleine Johannes (1887). That I had horns and ... has references to historical people and situations -- Van Diemen's Land, Sloat, the Anasazi -- to involve in his ...
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Adventures in my bed: this story is just like the dreams that inspired it: lucid, erotic, and not terribly long. One man's quest to control his dreams.
Esquire; 2/1/2003; McMahon, Bucky; 4322 words;
... predecessors include nineteenth-century French orientalist Hervey de Saint-Denys's Dreams and How to Guide Them and Frederik van Eeden's A Study of Dreams (1913)--LaBerge, a Stanford Ph.D. in psychophysiology, is the guy who first did the science ...
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