De revisor revisited: over de literatuur van de desillusie

In this article the author searches for the characteristic features of Revisor-prose, i.e. the prose associated with the literary periodical De Revisor. In the late seventies, two leading critics, Aad Nuis and Carel peeters, confronted their views on the subject. The former highlighted the references to reality, the latter emphasized the influence of imagination. A few years ago, two academic researchers, Jaap Goedegebuure and Sander Bax, followed their example. The former opted for a 'modernist' approach, the latter preferred a 'postmodernist' perspective. The author of this article presents an alternative 'poetic' reading, supported by Kathryn Hume's study on Fantasy and Mimesi