VAN VRIESLAND, VICTOR EMANUEL
- VAN VRIESLAND, VICTOR EMANUEL
- VAN VRIESLAND, VICTOR EMANUEL (1892–1974), Dutch poet,
literary critic, and journalist. Born in Haarlem, Van Vriesland first
worked as a journalist on the staff of De Nieuwe Gids and
De Vrije Bladen, became literary editor of the daily
Nieuwe Rotterdamse Courant (1931–38), and in 1937 edited
De Groene Amsterdammer.
After World War II Van Vriesland published several
collections of poetry, some of which was collected in Drievoudig
verweer ("Threefold Resistance," 1949). Ten years later he
published another collection, Tegengif ("Antidote"). His only
novel, Het afscheid van de wereld in drie dagen ("Farewell to
the World in Three Days," 1926; shortened version, 1936), had little
success. He also wrote short stories, collected in De ring met de
aquamarijn en andere verhalen ("The Ring with the Aquamarine and
Other Stories," 1939), and some plays, notably De Havenstad
("The Seaport," 1933).
Van Vriesland was one of the few Dutch critics who dealt with Jewish
literature in Western Europe. In his essay De cultureele
noodtoestand van het Joodsche volk ("The Jewish People's Cultural
State of Emergency," 1915), he adopted an extreme Zionist view in
rejecting a future for Jewish art in Europe. Just before World War
II he wrote a study of Dutch verse, Spiegel van de
Nederlandsche poezie door alle eeuwen ("Mirror of Dutch Poetry
throughout the Centuries," 1939). A collection of his critical essays
was published as Onderzoek en Vertoog ("Research and
Exposition," 2 vols., 1958).
(Gerda Alster-Thau)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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