ANPJan Cremer in 1964
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Author and visible artist Jan Cremer has died on the age of 84. His writer De Bezige Bij reviews that he died this morning.
“We’re deeply saddened and deeply affected by his dying,” the writer stated. “The Netherlands is shedding an icon who has profoundly modified artwork and literature.”
His guide I Jan Cremer brought on a shock within the Dutch literary panorama in 1964 as a result of uncooked language and intensive descriptions of his sexual adventures. A second and third half adopted later.
Shameless
The Trouw newspaper stated it was a disgrace that “de Filige Bij” printed the partly fantasized autobiography for the sake of cash and impact. An officer in Hengelo confiscated a duplicate as pornography, though nothing was definitively reported. Cremer eagerly included sentences from the unfavorable opinions in new editions.
Cremer’s shameless self-promotion was unprecedented within the good Netherlands. He instantly had “An inexorable bestseller” printed on the quilt of the picaresque novel that he devoted to himself. “I do not learn, I’m learn” was his common reply to the query about his influences.
Regardless of or due to the fuss, the primary version of 5,000 copies offered out inside per week. Translated into English and German, amongst others, it might promote 15 million copies worldwide.
Unimaginative
“I simply wrote guide that I needed to learn myself,” the author himself later mirrored on the commotion. “It is the identical with my work that I wish to see.”
The truth that he had taken his personal life as the topic was solely out of comfort. “I am fairly unimaginative, so I can solely write about my very own experiences. It is the job of a painter and author to color issues superbly.”
His spouse Babette acknowledges him in that characterization, she writes in his obituary. “He wrote as he painted, he painted as he wrote.”
Cultural bullshit
Like a Dutch Céline or Kerouac, he appeared to slot in seamlessly with the zeitgeist of the early Nineteen Sixties. The motorcycle-riding Cremer flirted within the media with the eye he acquired as a ‘tradition fool’. What did he consider Rembrandt? “Sorry, I do not play sports activities.”
After the success of his debut, Cremer continued to dwell “seven lives at a time” as a author, painter, journalist, globetrotter and theater maker. He later printed books such because the journalistic anthology The Venus of Montparnasse in The Hunsconcerning the authorities in London in the course of the Second World Warfare.
Within the meantime, a number of unsuccessful makes an attempt had been made to make sure success I Jan Cremer to translate to a different medium. A rock opera starring Peter Tuinman flopped, and (worldwide) makes an attempt at movie diversifications failed. Oliver Stone and Francis Ford Coppola would have proven curiosity, as would Johnny Depp, Cremer himself reported through the years. To date with out outcomes.
New novel
His writer reported to the ANP information company that Cremer was engaged on a brand new novel on the time of his dying. It’s not but identified what is going to occur with this.
Jan Cremer is buried privately.
Sacha de Boer / De Bezige BijJan Cremer
