“…For more than seven years he waited in vain for a residence permit and to escape deportation he went into hiding in a small room where he taught himself Dutch and started writing novels and poems, some of which have won prizes. By the time a General Pardon was finally announced, Rodaan had had enough of the Netherlands and left for Belgium to start a new, possibly legal life. …”

“…A devotee of À la recherche du temps perdu states, "If your life is fulfilled by Balzac's novels, Musset's poems and Chopin's music, you will never be alone." …”