Vienna’s van der Jagt (a.k.a. Arnon Grunberg, Blue Mondays, , etc.) spins the classic coming-of-ager and sets the table on a roar. Our narrator and life-explorer here is the year-old Viennese boy named—amazing coincidence!—Marek van der Jagt. · In Arnon Grunberg’s novel “Story of My Baldness,” which has just been released in English translation, the Dutch novelist adopted a new literary . · In addition to being the author of The Story of My Baldness, Marek van der Jagt is its narrator. Also, he does not exist.
Under the pseudonym Marek van der Jagt he published the successful De geschiedenis van mijn kaalheid (The Story of my Baldness, ) and Gstaad (), as well as the essay Monogaam (Monogamous, ). Grunberg also writes plays, essays and travel columns. Some of his books were written using the pseudonym Marek van der Jagt. In Van der Jagt made his debut with the novel 'De geschiedenis van mijn kaalheid' [The Story of My Baldness], soon it became known that it was Grunberg hidden behind this name, but not before was announced that Van der Jagt had won the Anton Wachter award. De tranen der acacia's (B+) An Untouched House (A-) VAN DER JAGT, Marek: Monogaam (B-) The Story of My Baldness (B+) JAPIN, Arthur: In Lucia's Eyes (B+) The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi (B+) DE KAT, Otto: The Figure in the Distance (B) KOCH, Herman: Dear Mr. M (B-) The Dinner (B) Summer House with Swimming Pool (B) KRABBÉ, Tim: The Cave (B+.
Vienna’s van der Jagt (a.k.a. Arnon Grunberg, Blue Mondays, , etc.) spins the classic coming-of-ager and sets the table on a roar. Our narrator and life-explorer here is the year-old Viennese boy named—amazing coincidence!—Marek van der Jagt. In The Story of My Baldness, Viennese philosophy student Marek van der Jagt tells the story of his quest for l’amour fou. Van der Jagt introduces a host of unforgettable characters and weaves a web of shameful secrets in this novel that uses Vienna The ingenious comic novel named one of the “best books of ” by The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Baltimore Sun. () De geschiedenis van mijn kaalheid as Marek van der Jagt; English translation: The Story of My Baldness () () De Mensheid zij geprezen, Lof der Zotheid (Praised be Mankind, Praise of Folly ) () Gstaad 95–98 as Marek van der Jagt () De asielzoeker (The Asylum Seeker).
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