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1902 - Born in Eibergen on the 26th of January.
1930 - Wrote essay "The Carnival of Citizens".
1932 - Ter Braak, together with Edgar du Perron and Maurice Roelants, started the literary magazine Forum which proved to be one of the most important literary periodicals in the Dutch-speaking world in the nineteen-thirties.
1933 - Ter Braak, then living in The Hague, joined the Dutch liberal daily Het Vaderland as a literary affairs editor and was one of the first Dutchmen to understand the looming threat of Nazism.
1940 - Four days after the Germans had invaded the Netherlands, on the 14th of May, after a failed attempt to flee to England, Menno ter Braak committed suicide by using a sedative, combined with an injection of poison.
1930 - Wrote essay "The Carnival of Citizens".
1932 - Ter Braak, together with Edgar du Perron and Maurice Roelants, started the literary magazine Forum which proved to be one of the most important literary periodicals in the Dutch-speaking world in the nineteen-thirties.
1933 - Ter Braak, then living in The Hague, joined the Dutch liberal daily Het Vaderland as a literary affairs editor and was one of the first Dutchmen to understand the looming threat of Nazism.
1940 - Four days after the Germans had invaded the Netherlands, on the 14th of May, after a failed attempt to flee to England, Menno ter Braak committed suicide by using a sedative, combined with an injection of poison.
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Drie vrienden (Vestdijkkroniek) (Unknown Binding - Jul 9, 1989) |
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Over Politicus zonder partij van Menno ter Braak (Synthese) by Francis Bulhof (Unknown Binding - Jul 9, 1980) |
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Nietzsche-Rezeption im Lichte des Faschismus: Thomas Mann und Menno ter Braak (Germanistische Texte und Studien) by Sung-Hyun Jang (Paperback - Jul 9, 1994) |
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Kritiek en criteria: Menno ter Braak en het literaire waardeoordeel (Kritische studies) by Peter Frits Schmitz (Paperback - Jul 9, 1979) |
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De politiek van de literatuurkritiek: De reputatie-opbouw van Menno ter Braak in de Nederlandse letteren by Nel van Dijk (Unknown Binding - Jul 9, 1994) |
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Musil? ken ik niet: Ter Braak en Du Perron over modernisten en epigonen (Leidse opstellen) by August Hans den Boef (Unknown Binding - Jul 9, 1991) |
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