Aristide von Bienefeldt
Aristide von Bienefeldt was the pen name of the Dutch novelist Rijk de Jong.
Von Bienefeldt's first novel - Bekentenissen van een Stamhouder - was both praised and criticized by the Dutch and the Flemish press because of its explicit homosexual passages.
Confessions is the story of a young man, also called Aristide, who is driven by an unlimited sexual hunger to experience the seamy side of life in Paris and London, at the turn of the millennium.
In 2003, von Bienefeldt's second novel, Een beschaafde jongeman, was published to more divided opinion: one critic spoke about the magnificent Aristide von Bienefeldt, another one wished him a slow and painful death, preferably as a result of AIDS.
Leer mij Walter kennen was published in May 2007 by J.M. Meulenhoff, Amsterdam, followed by De zus die Anna Magnani niet was in December 2010. Von Bienefeldt ended his collaboration with J.M. Meulenhoff in January 2011, as a result of a conflict of interest.
The adventures of my little red bottle was published in January 2014 by kleine Uil editions. In October 2014, Marmer uitgeverij published his autobiographic novel Another Paul Newman in the kitchen, an autobiographic novel he wrote under his birth name that describes his mother's ongoing resistance to abandoning her ancestral farm house in Rozenburg for the construction of a traffic tunnel. Hotel Malinconia, a small novel about the loss of imagination in our society was published posthumously by the same company on February 4, 2016.
Von Bielefeldt died of cancer on 15 January 2016.
Novels
Bekentenissen van een Stamhouder Een beschaafde jongeman Leer mij Walter kennen De zus die Anna Magnani niet was De avonturen van mijn rode flesje En weer zat er een Paul Newman in de keuken- ''Hotel Malinconia''