No, a street bookcase cannot be called this colossus, but how often does it happen that a pop-up container full of books appears on the sidewalk somewhere? Already two days in a row, for Geldersekade 107 in Amsterdam. Here antiquarian bookshop Schuhmacher is evacuated, after the death of owner Wilma Schuhmacher (97). What was value in the collection was transferred to elsewhere, the rest is now defenseless in the tank. Feed for book rescuers, who pointed out each other on social media for what was here on the threshold of the destruction.
Not that these quantities can be saved. Today there are mainly literary magazines. A neatly bound volume 1871 of Dietsche Warande and Belfortthose of Calling from 1928-1929. Very topical look the copies tied with a string Hollands Maandblad from 1967. On top of a theme number anti-Americanism, including Renate Rubinstein, WF Hermans, the brothers of the Reve and Willem Drees Jr ..
Editor KL Poll had collected this star ensemble to respond to an earlier article by Jacques de Kadt. It leads to polemics in which it Ad hominem was not shunned, or actually it Ad Animalem (or how do you say that in Latin). Hermans made up the Kadt for ‘Holy Cow’, while Rubinstein found him a ‘sheep in wolf’s clothes’. De Kadt, not necessarily in the narrow, but venomous: “Because what do you pay for Renate to put this Kwasi-realistic sheep in his wolfshempje and show that he has no idea of politics in the era of the Teach-in, in your spicy and intelligent Libelle-for-the-Middle-style.” Incidentally, I did not find the ‘ladies supplement’ announced on the cover.
The volume leads us smoothly through the controversies of 1967. “D’66: more enemy than friend,” Poll writes. A fascinating article by Arabist J. Brugman comes after the six -day war until a 58 years later not yet worn out the conclusion about the “wave of sympathy” that Israel receives, “and precisely in circles that express themselves with horror in all other areas that power makes power justice?” Anger, by the way, in the next issue, that Hollands Maandblad Not “changed” had remained of “the pro-Arabian position.”
More subtle than the straightforward polemics, Andreas Burnier’s interview with a certain Dr. Hemelweg, which argues that ‘heterophilia’ can indeed be cured, although one has to overcome a few things to get rid of the neurosis: “You also have resistance from desperation. People who say: oh well, I am straight, my parents were like that.” Hemelweg charges 60 guilders per hour: “Slowly you see them becoming more optimistic, gay. They are going to dance at the club, instead of calculating their child benefit. “
Between the society there is a lot of literature, such as the thousand lines long love poem ‘God and goddess’ by Leo Vroman in which an ‘antiborne and antinate’ raised Dutch young man, called God, meets the muscle -naked girl goddess. They travel to Holland to teach people there to be exposed: a poem like a nudist adventure novel. Maybe we should always have a new one at the start of the month Hollands Maandblad from 1967 pack and see if the world has changed.