The Babel Guide to Dutch and Flemish Fiction

This concise pocket book covers 75 authors writing in Dutch or Flemish who have been translated into English. An alphabetically arranged Index of Authors Reviewed is followed by Reviews of Selected Books (pp. 9‐184), a listing of contributors and a “Database of Dutch and Flemish Fiction in Translation” (pp. 187‐202). “Reviews of Selected Books,” constituting the main body of the text, begins with an Anthology, The Dedalus Book of Dutch Fantasy, edited by Richard Huijing, and concludes with Jan Wolkers’ Turkish Delight, a novel published in 1969 and apparently stylistically heavily influenced by Jack Kerouac. Entries run to...