Max de Jong - Damesportret van Rossetti - 1983

By Sir J.L. Prop, a hand-stitched and printed bibliophile edition of this cult writer. Very nicely designed in the Lutetia typeface and with paper from the bindery of David Simaleavich. Very limited edition of 45 copies. Our copy is unnumbered.

Condition: Fine copy.

Max Jelle de Jong (Wageningen, December 25, 1917 – Amsterdam, June 10, 1951) was a Dutch poet and essayist.
De Jong studied Dutch language and literature in Utrecht, where he belonged to the circle of friends and acquaintances of Theo van Baaren, Gertrude Pape, Ad den Besten, Louis Lehmann and Leo Vroman. He contributed to the literary magazines Groot Nederland, in which, in 1938, he made his debut as a poet, as well as De Gemeenschap and De Schoone Zakdoek. After World War II he was, among others, friends with publisher Geert van Oorschot. In 1947 Van Oorschot published the poem Heet van de naald by Max de Jong. In his posthumously published Diary he described numerous writers, including Willem Frederik Hermans, Adriaan Morriën and Gerard Reve. After his early death much of his work was published illegally.

In 2000, Bas Lubberhuizen published Altijd het tinnef om je heen, a biography of De Jong, written by Dutch linguist Nico Keuning (1952). The book sketches the "arduous undergo‑ing" of a uncompromising romantic against the backdrop of postwar literary life in the Netherlands.

Since 2018, the Max de Jong Society, under the presidency of Bob Polak, has dedicated itself to the life and work of the poet-writer.

Source: Wikipedia