Audio Book – Kleine Inez
(first published 1925)
Reinier van Genderen Stort (1886-1942)
Language: Dutch
Peter, the unwanted son of a distinguished family, grows after his mother's suicide, as he is six years old, with a world-aunt in Arnhem. A chance meeting with the young girl Inez, about ten years later, has a big influence on his life. This Bildungsroman mainly takes place in the first two decades of the 20th century, until the outbreak of the First World War.
According to reviewer Menno ter Braak, in 1925: "Little Inez is not a chronicle of facts, of which completeness can be demanded, but a myth of life, which coincidentally does not have Prometheus as its subject, but two Arnhem people."
Van Genderen Stort lived as a child in Arnhem, and incorporated his impressions from that time in this book. Since 1917 he was completely blind because of syphilis, so the many visual descriptions come entirely from his memories. 'Kleine Inez' was crowned by C.W. Van der Hoogt Prize, awarded by the Dutch Literature Society, and is often counted among the classic Dutch literary canon, although it is unknown to many people.
(Summary by Anna Simon)
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Total running time: 6:46:49 – Read in Dutch by Anna Simon
01 – 01 – Chapter I, part 1 – 28:15 min [download all sections]
02 – 02 – Chapter I, part 2 – 28:25 min
03 – 03 – Chapter I, part 3 – 23:07 min
04 – 04 – Chapter I, part 4 – 27:26 min
05 – 05 – Chapter II, part 1 – 30:00 min
06 – 06 – Chapter II, part 2 – 25:50 min
07 – 07 – Chapter II, part 3 – 26:28 min
08 – 08 – Chapter III, part 1 – 32:35 min
09 – 09 – Chapter III, part 2 – 25:57 min
10 – 10 – Chapter III, part 3 – 29:37 min
11 – 11 – Chapter III, part 4 – 30:48 min
12 – 12 – Chapter IV, part 1 – 28:23 min
13 – 13 – Chapter IV, part 2 – 32:59 min
14 – 14 – Chapter IV, part 3 – 36:59 min
Dedicated Proof-Listener: Herman Roskams, Meta-Coordinator / Cataloging: Hokuspokus
Catalogued 23. January 2016