Aristide von Bienefeldt

Who is Aristide von Bienefeldt?

Aristide von Bienefeldt is the pseudonym of a Dutch writer whose 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 time of the millennium change.

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.