Portrait of author Frans Kellendonk (1951-1990). Kellendonk has a brilliant, highly tactile writing style. His work, especially his best known novel Mystical Body (Mystiek lichaam, 1986), draws on many cultural and intertextual sources and is thus open to divergent interpretations. Kellendonk has been criticized for his cultural criticism and for his 'negative' view on homosexuality, by which I mean the idea (notably elaborated by queer theorist Lee Edelman) that homosexuality is a negation of the normative celebration of the future, embodied in the child (or the pregnant woman, in the case of Mystical Body). In Mystical Body, Kellendonk partly draws on his own experiences as HIV-positive, gay man, which makes this novel one of the earliest and most literary examples with this subject in Dutch literature. #franskellendonk #kellendonk #mystieklichaam #mysticalbody #aidsliterature #literature #author #queerauthor #portrait #illustration #dutchliterature https://www.instagram.com/p/ChkSd97NMc0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=