The Painter and the Girl
Margriet de Moor has the rare ability as a writer to touch upon the enigma of our existence, even to make known the unknowable within the ‘bewilderingly ambiguous domain of facts and words’, as she called it in Ik droom dus, her collection of short stories. De Moor does so not by relating realistic or straightforward tales, but through the roundabout route of imaginary lives, sensitively following the intuition of her characters.
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Original title
De schilder en het meisje
Author
Margriet de Moor
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An exceptionally rich novel about death, imagination, and eternity.
NRC Handelsblad
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With this story about a seventeenth-century Danish girl Margriet de Moor confirms her reputation as an author of historical novels.
Het Financieele Dagblad
Margriet de Moor
Margriet de Moor (b. 1941) is one of Holland’s most prominent writers. She started her writing career in 1988 with a collection of stories, 'Op de rug gezien' (Seen From Behind). A year later, 'Dubbelportret' (Double Portrait) appeared, three novellas in one volume.