Marcellus Emants
Marcellus Emants was a Dutch novelist who was one of the few examples of Dutch Naturalism. He is seen as a first step towards the renewing force of the Tachtigers towards modern Dutch literature, a movement which started around the 1880s. His most wellknown work is A Posthumous Confession, published in 1894, translated by J. M. Coetzee.
Marcellus Emants was born onAugust 1848 in Voorburg, Netherlands. He was born in a family of magistrates from The Hague. His father was the judge Guilliam Balthasar Emants and his mother was Anna Elisabeth Petronella Verwey Mejan .
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