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The Newspaper Columns of Menno ter Braak
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Literary Modernism, Volume: 8
In Cultural Criticism in the Netherlands, 1933-40, Jacob Boas offers a broad selection of the newspaper columns of legendary Dutch cultural critic Menno ter Braak. Ter Braak’s columns are noteworthy not only for their distinctive treatment of disparate cultural components ranging from literature to the social sciences, but also for the light they throw on the extent to which politics intruded on the cultural sphere in the years prior to the outbreak of war.
Ter Braak set a standard for literary criticism of surpassing quality. Moreover, a staunch advocate of democracy, the critic joined the battle against fascism, urging fellow intellectuals to rise to the occasion. The ‘conscience of Dutch letters’ killed himself on the eve of the German occupation, May 1940.
Ter Braak set a standard for literary criticism of surpassing quality. Moreover, a staunch advocate of democracy, the critic joined the battle against fascism, urging fellow intellectuals to rise to the occasion. The ‘conscience of Dutch letters’ killed himself on the eve of the German occupation, May 1940.
The Newspaper Columns of Menno ter Braak
Series:
Literary Modernism, Volume: 8
In Cultural Criticism in the Netherlands, 1933-40, Jacob Boas offers a broad selection of the newspaper columns of legendary Dutch cultural critic Menno ter Braak. Ter Braak’s columns are noteworthy not only for their distinctive treatment of disparate cultural components ranging from literature to the social sciences, but also for the light they throw on the extent to which politics intruded on the cultural sphere in the years prior to the outbreak of war.
Ter Braak set a standard for literary criticism of surpassing quality. Moreover, a staunch advocate of democracy, the critic joined the battle against fascism, urging fellow intellectuals to rise to the occasion. The ‘conscience of Dutch letters’ killed himself on the eve of the German occupation, May 1940.
Ter Braak set a standard for literary criticism of surpassing quality. Moreover, a staunch advocate of democracy, the critic joined the battle against fascism, urging fellow intellectuals to rise to the occasion. The ‘conscience of Dutch letters’ killed himself on the eve of the German occupation, May 1940.
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24, 1935, the second on June 25. Ter Braak himself spoke on June 22. For his speech, see Appendix 3 . Ter Braak’s Vaderland reports reprinted, in slightly modified form, from Jacob Boas, Writers’ Block, The Paris Antifascist Congress of 1935 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2016), by permission of the
the bulk of émigré literature. Between 1934 and 1940, signing off as Leopold Fabrizius, Thelen reviewed 143 of their books. See Jacob Boas, “Albert Vigoleis Thelen and Émigré Literature: Dispatches from Mallorca and other European Venues, 1934–1940,” in Spanienbilder aus dem deutschsprachigen Exil