In de demonische schaduw van de grote meester

In 1979, the Dutch author Louis Ferron published the novel De gallische ziekte , a literary work that often is linked to postmodernism. The nineteenth century tale ‘Der Sandmann’ by E.T.A. Hoffmann serves as one of the narrative’s many intertexts. In this article, I will examine whether the same cultural templates show up in both ‘Der Sandmann’ and De gallische ziekte . Although De gallische ziekte does include more or less the same cultural templates as ‘Der Sandmann’, my research also shows in which way Ferron adapts those templates to suit his own worldview.