Catalogue information

LastDodo number
3693147
Area
Books
Title
Camera Obscura
subtitle
Literary collection
Literary number
Addition to number
Publisher
Series / hero
Original title
Translator
Illustrator
Year
1988
Print Run
Reprint
Type of book
Number of pages
336
Number produced
Dimensions
21.5 x 28.5 cm
ISBN10
90-318- 9782-5
ISBN13
Barcode / EAN / UPC
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Country of publication
Details

The Camera Obscura has been a popular book from the start. Nevertheless, an anonymous reviewer in 1840 and E. Potgieter in 1841 find it necessary to devote a critical review to the Camera Obscura. The biggest problem they have with the book is the description of reality in the book. It remains with description and has no message for the reader. Despite the talent that Nicolaas Beets has according to both reviewers, he uses this incorrectly and that is why his book gets a negative rating. However, sentiment quickly turned and from the 1950s onwards, people only wrote positively about the book. The illustrations that are added are the subject of discussion, but the book has an almost untouchable status. The number of arguments used to reach a positive conclusion is declining. Around 1900, various reviews even appear in which no argument is presented to support a positive judgment. This situation lasted until 1910, when Albert Verwey wrote a review attacking the Camera Obscura's status as a folk book. From that moment on, the way in which Hildebrand's book is written changes. A process that had already begun cautiously at the end of the nineteenth century is now continuing: the reviews are becoming increasingly close to the reprint that prompted them to appear. A scientific reprint is published in 1998. Ten years later, in 2008, a contemporary revision by Ivo de Wijs is published. The spelling has been modernized, long-winded passages (for modern readers) have been shortened and major changes have been made in some places, whereby (parts of) chapters have been deleted in some cases. Opinions are divided about these interventions: according to enthusiasts, the modernisations are too drastic and affect the old character and the era. Source: Wikipedia

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