The East Indies, editor Beekman notes, could justly be called "Holland's Atlantis" - Edenic, pure, terrifying, nowhere. And while these Dutch stories about the Indies rarely specify their locality or geography, they stay all the more beautiful for their abstract loneliness. The narrator of all the tales seems to be a sort of commercial manager (Dutch) - first put down on an Indonesian island (in "Green"), then left there to grow into his obses...
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