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Margriet de Moor Noordwijk 21 Nov. 1941 • Dutch novelist and short story writer photo: Klaas Koppe full text search: the ledge - flash version* *
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ON MARGRIET DE MOOR'S BOOKSHELF The Idiot Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky, 1868 The saintly Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from a Swiss sanitorium and finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with wealth, power and sexual conquest. Kreutzer Sonata Leo N. Tolstoy, 1890 When Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partner, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder. Old People and the Things that Pass Louis Couperus, 1906 Three very old people are bound together by a secret, which they believe is known only to them. But unfortunately, this isn't the case. The Aleph and Other Stories Jorges Luis Borges, 1949 In stories that play with the very form of the short story, in this collection, Borges returns again and again to his themes: dreams, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gaucho knife-fighters, transparent tigers, and the elusive nature of identity itself. The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann, 1924 The story of Hans Castorp, a modern everyman who spends seven years in an Alpine sanatorium for tuberculosis patients, finally leaving to become a soldier in World War I. Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov, 1962 A novel constructed around the last great poem of a fictional American poet, John Shade, and an account of his death. The poem appears in full and the narrative develops through the lengthy, and increasingly eccentric, notes by his posthumous editor. A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare, 1596 Lovers lives are complicated by city law, feuding faerie royalty, and... love. As You Like It William Shakespeare, 1599 Shakespeare transplants the sophisticated denizens of the court to the starkly simple Forest of Arden, where witty clowns woo country wenches, philosophers wax melancholic and girls will be boys. The Man Without Qualities Robert Musil, 1930 Ulrich has no qualities in the sense that his self-awareness is completely divorced from his abilities. He is drawn into a project, the 'Parallel Campaign', to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Emperor Franz Joseph's coronation in 1918. Memoirs of Hadrian Marguerite Yourcenar, 1951 Hadrian, approaching death, writes a long valedictory letter to the young Marcus Aurelius, next-but-one in the line of succession. Hadrian describes his accession and explains the philosophy that informed his rule over the powerful and far-flung Empire. The Abyss Marguerite Yourcenar, 1968 The life of an imaginary physician, Zeno of Bruges, this novel reflects Yourcenar's fascination with the occult. The Following Story Cees Nooteboom, 1991 Herman Mussert, a former teacher of Latin and Greek, falls asleep in Amsterdam one evening, only to wake up in a hotel room in Lisbon with the fear that he is dead. Orpheus and Eurydice various, Greek myth (4th century BC?) When the wood nymph Eurydice suddenly and tragically dies, Orpheus proves his undying love by following her to the underworld, determined to bring her back from the clutches of Hades.	BOOKS BY MARGRIET DE MOOR: Virtuoso, The 1993 Set in Naples in 1800, this is the unusual story of a passionate affair between a young woman and a castrato.	WHAT TO READ AFTER THE VIRTUOSO? EROTICISM OF THE UNUSUAL Justine Marquis de Sade, 1791 Justine is the woeful story of a chaste, virtuous woman who is shown in the most graphic and vile ways that such virtue is rewarded only with suffering in the world outside convent walls. Lolita Vladimir Nabokov, 1955 The story of Humbert Humbert and his obsession with 12-year-old Dolores Haze. Determined to possess his 'Lolita' both carnally and artistically, Humbert embarks on a disastrous courtship that can only end in tragedy. House of the Sleeping Beauties, and Other Stories Yasunari Kawabata, 1968 Three short stories center on a lonely protagonist and his peculiar eroticism. An exploration of the interplay of fantasy and reality at work on a mind in solitude. [Begeerte] Manon Uphoff, 1995 Modern fairy tales about thwarted lust and repressed violence. Perfume Patrick Süskind, 1985 A murder was the start of his obsession. It was after that first crime that he knew he was a genius, that he understood his destiny. He, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, the fishmonger's bastard, was to be the greatest perfumier of all time. OPERA IN LITERATURE The Masterpiece Anna Enquist, 1994 Three days in the life of the painter Johan Steenkamer, and of the women closest to him. The story is based on Mozart's Don Giovanni. [Opernroman] Petra Morsbach, 1998 Love against the backdrop of four opera productions in a provincial German theater. [Gekkenschemer] Louis Ferron, 1974 WHO REALLY KNOWS THE ONE THEY LOVE? Identity Milan Kundera, 1997 A moment of confusion sets in motion a complex chain of events which crosses and recrosses the divide between fantasy and reality. [Wit zand] Kristien Hemmerechts, 1993 The distrust between a woman and her lover. Othello William Shakespeare, 1604 Othello, a man of quailty and superior intelligence, is brought down by his suspicions of his wife, Desdemona.
	[Op de rug gezien] 1988
	First Gray, Then White, Then Blue 1991
	[Ik droom dus] 1995
	[Zee-Binnen] 1999
	The Kreutzer Sonata 2001
	[De verdronkene] 2005
	[Dubbelportret] 1989
	Duke of Egypt 1996
	[De kegelwerper] 2006
	The Storm 2005 Dueling Dutch sisters become separated by a monstrous meteorological anomaly.
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