All said before: Menno Wigman's ennui

Authors
Publication date 2014
Journal The Low Countries
Volume | Issue number 22
Pages (from-to) 226-237
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (ASH)
Abstract There have always been poets who deliberately resign themselves to the existence of tradition and renounce all claims to originality. Menno Wigman (1966) is one of them. This Dutch Baudelaire describes the decadent ennui of his generation and the ‘melancholy of copy centres’. With an anthology of five poems.
Document type Article
Language English
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