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La Superba

Author: Ilja Leonard, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Pfeijffer

Translated from the Dutch by Michele Hutchison

2018 Longlist

La Superba is a Rabelaisian stylistic tour-de-force set in Genoa, the labyrinthine port city (nicknamed ‘La Superba’) where the author has lived for the last six years. Migration, legal and illegal, is the central theme of this autobiographical novel about a writer who becomes trapped in his walk on the wild side in a mysterious and exotic Old World city.

About the author

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, a classicist by training, made his debut with the poetry collection van de vierkante man (Of the Square Man, 1999), an homage to the experimental poetry of his great models, Pindar and Lucebert. In the years that followed, in addition to poetry, he has written stage plays, essays, columns, travel accounts, stories, political satires and four novels written in the spirit of Rabelais. In his other novels, he has played a game with world literature and divided the critics between those proclaiming him a genius and those who thought him an antiquated stylist. He’s a bit of both. La Superba is Pfeijffer’s masterpiece, and was greeted with unanimous praise, including the most prominent recognition with the awarding of Libris Literatuurprijs, the Netherlands’ most prestigious literary award, and the Tzum Prize, awarded for “the most beautiful sentence of the year,” which he has won twice.

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Librarian’s comments

Pfeijffer’s autobiographical novel about migration, illegal and legal, in Genoa tells the story of Europe today. A wholly postmodern ode to the imagination that lovingly describes the labyrinthine and magical city that Pfeijffer calls home@Genoa, Italy, the city known as La Superba. The novel won the Libris Literatuur Prijs 2014.

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Author

Ilja Leonard, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Pfeijffer

Country

NL, NL

Nominating Library

The Libraries of The Hague, The Netherlands, The Netherlands|The Libraries of The Hague

Publisher

Deep Vellum Publishing, USA

Translation

Translated from the Dutch by Michele Hutchison

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