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F. Springer


Born
in Batavia, Dutch East Indies, Netherlands
January 15, 1932

Died
November 07, 2011

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction


F. Springer (15 January 1932 � 7 November 2011) was the pseudonym of Carel Jan Schneider, a Dutch foreign service diplomat and writer.

Schneider was born in Batavia, Dutch East Indies. He spent World War II in a Japanese internment camp,[1] and afterward lived and worked in New Guinea, New York, Bangkok, Brussels, Dhaka, Luanda, East Berlin (he was the next-to-last Dutch ambassador there[1]), and Tehran all of which have served as locations for the novels and stories which he has published.

His laconic style is reminiscent of F. Scott Fitzgerald or Graham Greene,[1] and he often adopts an ironic perspective on his often tragic subject matter, such as in Teheran, een zwanezang, a love story set against the background of the Iranian Revolution. ...more

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Teheran, een zwanezang
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Quissama: Een relaas
3.49 avg rating — 203 ratings — published 1985 — 6 editions
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Sterremeer
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Bandoeng-Bandung
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Quadriga: een eindspel
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Tabee, New York
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Met stille trom
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Kandy: Een terugtocht
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Zaken overzee
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“Op een avond legde mijn vader zijn lepel en vork neer en zei: 'Was ik maar een groot schrijver, altijd bezig met het Hogere, dan heeft armoede zin, dan ben je kunstenaar.'

'Maar ik vind je een kunstenaar,' zei mijn moeder troostend en alsof dat genoeg was.”
― F. Springer, Bougainville
tags: kunstenaar, schrijver
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“- sentimentele gedachten komen op, aan verre geliefden, gemiste kansen, diep weggestopte maar nooit vergeten blunders en ook wel een beetje zelfmedelijden. En vragen: wat doe je hier, in deze uithoek van de wereld? En als je vannacht eens een acute blindedarmontsteking krijgt, pus stroomt in de buikholte - is het dan allemaal de moeite waard geweest om te creperen hier in dit gat?”
― F. Springer, Bougainville
tags: angst, creperen, doodgaan, zelfmedelijden
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“Tussen opa's laatste woorden en zijn eerste had hij maar één regel opengelaten. '...heb jij dat ook: om drie, vier uur 's nachts wakker worden en alle, alle zorgen van jezelf en iedereen op je borst voelen drukken. Of nee, bij mij begint het lager: in de maag. Knagend gevoel, wat is het, onbehagen over hoe 't met ons gaat, of angst over hoe 't met ons zal aflopen. De kleinste muizenissen opgeblazen tot wereldrampen.”
― F. Springer, Bougainville
tags: angst, knagen, onbehagen, stress, wereldrampen
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