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Van Dis in Optima Forma

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Ellen Ombre, Abdelkader Benali en Adriaan van Dis - foto Serge Ligtenberg 2004
Ellen Ombre, Abdelkader Benali en Adriaan van Dis - foto Serge Ligtenberg 2004


Adriaan van Dis loves languages that 'make love to one another'. He calls it Loving Language. Recently he put together a whole edition of the literary magazine Optima about this very subject. He asked amongst others Abdelkader Benali, Michiel van Kempen, Ellen Ombre and Henk van Woerden to write an article about how for them - as van Dis puts it - 'ribs from one language intertwine with those of another language'. Once more van Dis allows during this conversation languages to make love to one another.