Ferdinand Bordewijk was born in Amsterdam and studied law at Leiden University.
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It is comparable to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, which appeared one year later and which Bordewijk deemed to be junk ("een enorme prul").
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Character (1997), an Academy Award-winning film directed by Mike van Diem, was based on his Karakter (1938).
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