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Belcampo (real name: Herman Peter Schoenfeld Wijers, 1902-1990) stands apart from all other Dutch writers in terms of his synthesis of eccentric thinking and individuality of artistic method. He continues the classical tradition of German Romanticism, in particular, E. T. A. Hoffmann. The writer even borrowed his pseudonym from one of the characters in his novel The Elixir of Satan, Pietro Belcampo.

"The last adventurer in Dutch literature" is how his compatriots today call the writer, whom critics compare to Kafka and whose work was unfairly underestimated during his lifetime.