Leo hoek, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 1945. Ph.D. from the VU University, Amsterdam. Assistant Professor of French Literature at the VU University, Amsterdam.
Fellow (1 September 1982 – 31 August 1983)
I carried out semiotic research on the titles and the opening sequences of Maupassant’s short stories, based on the theoretical statements made in my earlier work La marque du titre (The Hague, Mouton, 1981).