Arthur van Schendel

Arthur van Schendel (born March 5, 1874, Batavia, Java—died Sept. 11, 1946, Amsterdam) was a Dutch novelist and short-story writer, whose basically Romantic temperament, combined with a concentrated, restrained, almost classical style, produced some of the greatest novels of his period. His first important novels Een zwerver verliefd (1904; “A Wanderer in Love”) and Een zwerver verdwaald (1907; “A Lost Wanderer”) are set in medieval Italy, but the historical aspect is subordinated to the inner...