Editing Dutch-language literature (section)

===New Objectivity and the Forum Group (1925–1940)===
During the 1920s, a new group of writers who distanced themselves from the ornate style of the Movement of 1880 arose, claiming it to be too self-centered and distanced from real life. Their movement was called "Nieuwe Zakelijkheid", or New Objectivity. An isolated forerunner is the figure of [[Nescio]] (J.H.F. Grönloh, 1882–1961), who published his few short stories in the 1910s. A prime example of New Objectivity is [[Ferdinand Bordewijk|F. Bordewijk]] (1884–1965), whose short story ''Bint'' (1931) and terse writing epitomise the style.

An offshoot of the New Objectivity movement centered on the ''Forum'' magazine, which appeared in the years 1932–1935 and was edited by the leading Dutch [[literary criticism|literary critic]] [[Menno ter Braak]] (1902–1940) and the novelist [[Edgar du Perron]] (1899–1940). Writers associated at one point or other with this modernist magazine include Belgian writers [[Willem Elsschot]] and [[Marnix Gijsen]] and Dutch writers [[J. Slauerhoff]], [[Simon Vestdijk]] and [[Jan Greshoff]].