On Saturday, October 28, 2017, this bust of the writer was unveiled Ferdinand Bordewijk unveiled. The bronze bust was created by Lillian Mensing at the initiative and commission of the Bordewijk Society from Deventer. The bust is placed on a corten steel pedestal on which a sentence from Bordewijk's book is written. Character (1938) states: "I always thought," he said, "that I would see you again, but here… I'd like to see the river with you now. May I?" The bust was erected to draw attention to the connection between Bordewijk and Rotterdam. Ferdinand Bordewijk (1884-1965) worked as a lawyer in Rotterdam, so he knew the city well. He lived almost his entire life in The Hague, where another bust of him was unveiled in the Passage in 2015; also at the initiative of the Bordewijk Society. Both busts were created by Mensing, but are different. This location in Het Park was deliberately chosen because it relates to a location in Bordewijk's novel CharacterIn the chapter 'The Hill' he describes the view towards the water and the harbor. According to the Rotterdam writers Jan Oudenaarden and Rien Vroegindeweij, Character The greatest novel set in Rotterdam. Incidentally, there's a second place in the city where Bordewijk is commemorated. In 2006, a plaque commemorating the novel was unveiled at Saftlevenstraat (no. 5). Bint (1934)
