@article{aup:/content/journals/10.5117/TNTL2021.3.002.CLAU, author = "Claus, Jan-Bart", title = "Virtuoos en betrokken", journal= "Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde", year = "2021", volume = "137", number = "3", pages = "107-130", doi = "https://doi.org/10.5117/TNTL2021.3.002.CLAU", url = "https://www.aup-online.com/content/journals/10.5117/TNTL2021.3.002.CLAU", publisher = "Amsterdam University Press", issn = "2212-0521", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "heteronome postmodernism", keywords = "late postmodernism", keywords = "Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer", keywords = "poetics", keywords = "postmodernism", abstract = "Abstract This article contributes to the discussion between heteronomous and autonomous poetics, using Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer’s poetics as a case study. Pfeijffer explicitly adopts a more heteronomous pose in interviews and in essays following his Hoewordikeenberoemdschrijver? (2012). Critical reception examining Pfeijffers work prior to that publication has on the other hand largely concluded it to be ‘virtuous, but playful’. This article analyses that change by emphasising that his poetics have become ‘virtuous and engaged’, or in regards to his prose ‘postmodern and engaged’. The first chapter grounds the article in the discussion of the dichotomy between authorial autonomy and heteronomy, which will lead to a poetics of ‘heteronomous postmodernism’ that simultaneously values the heteronomous and the postmodernist. This concept is then used to analyse the implicit poetics of Pfeijffer’s latest novel Grand Hotel Europa (2018).", }