Two lectures or essays about the Dutch author Anna Blaman(1905 - 1960) by two other Dutch authors, Hella S. Haasse and Alfred Kossmann. This publication of 48 pages appeared after these two lectures were given on 22 November 1960, the year Blaman died. She had died in July of that year.

During her lifetime, Anna Blaman twice received high literary rewards. She was the first author to receive the P.C. Hooft Prijs for her entire oeuvre in 1956. Nonetheless, (queer) erotic passages in her work drew criticism, and the reception of her works suffered a setback from merciless criticism by fellow writers.

These two essays, by writers who were young, then, gives a fair assessment of the significance of Blaman's work. Haasse sees Blaman's three major novels essentially as three parts of a total conception. ( )