- Aristide von Bienefeldt
Aristide von Bienefeldt (born 1964) is a Dutch writer whose first novel - "Confessions of a Son and Heir" - was both praised and criticized by the Dutch and the Flemish press because of its explicit homosexual passages (‘Unquestionably written by a master’s hand’, Haarlems Dagblad, ‘His style is unbelievably good for a débutant’, Nederlands Dagblad, ‘A respectable publishing house wouldn’t have bothered to send this piece of trash back to its owner’, Twentse Courant, ‘It is a great pleasure to read "Confessions", if it were only for the comical predictability that each man who crosses the protagonist’s path, ends up having sex with him, NRC Handelsblad).
"Confessions" is the story of a young man, also called Aristide, who is driven by an unlimited sexual hunger to experience the seamy side of life in
Paris andLondon , at the time of the millennium change.In 2003, von Bienefeldt's second novel, "A Decent Young Man," was published to more divided opinion: one critic spoke about the "magnificent" Aristide von Bienefeldt (Von Bienefeldt displays an immense talent for writing, Haarlems Dagblad, May 2003), another one wished him a slow and painful death, preferably as a result of
AIDS (HP De Tijd, June 2003). Fact|date=December 2007"Walter's Birthday" was published in May 2007 by J.M. Meulenhoff, Amsterdam ( Dutch title "Leer mij Walter kennen").
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