April 4, 2024 9:51 amPublished by adminsComments Off on IS HISTORY FICTION?
This argument is an attack on intellectual laziness and a plea for the assumption that everything has meaning. Is history fiction? Yes, if we mean that we should not shy...
December 22, 2023 9:28 amPublished by adminsComments Off on ON THE NATURE AND USEFULNESS OF CREATIVITY
On Friday, December 8, 2023, writer and poet Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer gave the 52nd Huizinga lecture in the Pieterskerk in Leiden. For the Huizinga lecture, Pfeijffer returns to his alma...
May 23, 2023 8:00 amPublished by adminsComments Off on ALCIBIADES
‘History rarely repeats itself in a blatant manner, but when the events are over, it often turns out to have performed an old play behind new masks and in updated...
April 11, 2023 11:04 pmPublished by adminsComments Off on Headline #11 – Alcibiades
Your life is such an overwhelming manifestation of life that not even death can kill you. Long after the walls of Athens have fallen, long after the gods have taken...
April 11, 2023 11:01 pmPublished by adminsComments Off on Headline #10 – Alcibiades
Democracy had given us freedom and a holy reason why we could not lose the war, but with democracy we were not going to win the war either.
April 11, 2023 10:59 pmPublished by adminsComments Off on Headline #9 – Alcibiades
Achieving the greatest thing possible is not enough if there is also the possibility of doing so in a peerlessly grandiose fashion.
April 11, 2023 10:55 pmPublished by adminsComments Off on Headline #8 – Alcibiades
No man will ever be a great man if he does not dare to be a woman too.
April 11, 2023 10:51 pmPublished by adminsComments Off on Headline #7 – Alcibiades
History rarely repeats itself in a blatant manner, but when the events are over, it often turns out to have performed an old play behind new masks and in updated...
February 12, 2023 10:39 pmPublished by adminsComments Off on SONNETS 2022
Sonnets 2022 is the last collection in a series of five. Between 2018 and 2022, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer published these sonnets biweekly in response to current events in the book...
April 11, 2022 9:32 pmPublished by adminsComments Off on MONTEROSSO MON AMOUR
‘Does dissatisfaction become contentment when you resign yourself to it?’ Carmen, a middle aged childless woman, is not so sure. She decides to take a leap into the depths of...
February 11, 2022 10:17 pmPublished by adminsComments Off on SONNETS 2021
Sonnets 2021 is the last compilation of the sonnets in response to current events, which Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer published in 2021 with a biweekly frequency in the book supplement of...
October 25, 2017 9:43 amPublished by adminsLeave your thoughts
Ter ere van de verschijning van <i>La Superba</i> in Macedonië zal Ilja Pfeijffer op het BookStar Festival in Skopje optreden van 25 tot 27 Oktober
September 19, 2017 12:02 amPublished by adminsLeave your thoughts
‘The Professor, the Bikini Model and the Suitcase Full of Trouble’ ran the headline in The New York Times in 2013, above an article about an Oxford professor of particle...
