Non-fiction
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QUARANTAINE
DIARY IN TIMES OF CONTAMINATIONProse
Non-fiction
2020
In the spring of 2020, the world fell prey to a pandemic due to the Sars-CoV-2 virus. Northern Italy was among the hardest hit areas in the world. Ilja Leonard…
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UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS
ON THE USEFULNESS AND DISADVANTAGE OF THE IRONY FOR LIFENon-fiction
2019
“What doubt is for science,” wrote the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), “that is irony for personal life.” But in the social debate, irony soon leads to indifference. And Kierkegaard…
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LETTERS FROM GENOA
Prose
Non-fiction
2016
Letters from Genoa is the natural counterpart to La Superba. It takes place largely in its title city and discusses La Superba and how it was received. However, it is…
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FORTUNE SEEKERS
Non-fiction
2015
E. Du Perron Award
About refugees, migrants, fear and hope. According to Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, the massive immigration to Europe cannot be stopped. ‘And what is inevitable is best organized as well as possible.’…
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CONSTANTIJN HUYGENS, VOICES OF THE HAGUE
WITH FRANS BLOMNon-fiction
2013
A textedition with a poetic translation and introduction of the Voces Haganae of the Dutch poet and diplomat Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687).
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THE MINISTRY OF SPECIFIC AFFAIRS
Non-fiction
2011
A selection of the columns on Dutch and international politics.
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THE UPHILL-DOWNHILL PHILOSOPHY
TO ROME ON A BIKENon-fiction
2010
At 4pm on June 1st 2008, a poet weighing upwards of 100 kilos and a petite Russian photographer decided to set off from Leiden on their bikes, with the idea…
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GREEK MYTHS
Non-fiction
2010
Every generation has its book of Greek myths. Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer has written one for the 21st century. Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer took the poetry world by storm in 1998 with…
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DISPATCHES FROM A SECOND LIFE
Non-fiction
2007
After his avant-garde Pirandello-esque novel, Real Life, Ilja Pfeijffer decided to try out other lives, namely Se- cond Life, a multi-player virtual world accessed via the internet. Economists are fascinated…
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THE MANIPULATIVE MODE
POLITICAL PROPAGANDA IN ANTIQUITY: A COLLECTION OF CASE STUDIES (WITH K.A.E. ENENKEL)Non-fiction
2004
This book deals with political propoganda in classical antiquity, exploring the contexts, strategies, and parameters of a fascinating phenomenon that has often been approached with anachronistic models or completely ignored….
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THE SECRET OF THE MURDERED MAUNDER
ESSAYS ON POETRYNon-fiction
2003
What’s to become of poetry? Everyone is versifying anything, everything is allowed and nothing is bad. High time for new standards and values. The secret of the Murdered Maunder is…
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DE ANTIEKEN
Non-fiction
2000
In De Antieken, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer tells classical literature’s tale from Homer to the fall of Rome. He does so in ways that are so infectious, so original that they…
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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF BACCHYLIDES
PROCEEDINGS OF A COLLOQUIUM HELD AT THE VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT AMSTERDAM (WITH S.R. SLINGS)Non-fiction
1999
In his own time Bacchylides was considered the equal of Pindar, the most famous representative of archaic Greek lyric. Until the publication of the London papyrus in 1897; the study…
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FIRST PERSON FUTURES IN PINDAR
Non-fiction
1999
This book is about passages where Pindar uses the future tense with reference to himself or to his song. It addresses the question as to exactly what the function is…
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THREE AEGINETAN ODES OF PINDAR
A COMMENTARY ON NEMEAN V, NEMEAN III & PYTHIAN VIIINon-fiction
1999
A study of three epinicia of Pindar, which have in common that they celebrate victories of Aeginetan athletes and that they respond to the contemporary political situation in Aegina and…