The works that Bernlef is remembered for most are but a small selection from the vast number of novels he wrote during his lifetime. There is no doubt that those are his masterpieces, novels such as Hersenschimmen, and Meeuwen. His main theme of forgetting, or not seeing the entirety in the mind, including one's own personality, such as in De pianoman are also part of many of his other novels and short stories.

Still, Bernlef wrote many more novels and short stories, some picking up on political times of the 60s and 70s, as in De man in het midden or the sexual revolution in the 1960s, as in Paspoort in duplo.

Het Komplot in the edition of the Dar pocket, a pun on the name of the publisher, with its bright yellow cover, consists of a selection of short stories taken from other publications by Bernlef. This book contains six short stories liften from Rondom een gat (1971), De schaduw van een vlek (1967) and De verdwijning van Kim Miller (1969).

The short story Het komplot is the longest and the most impressive. As the title suggests, it is about a man who sees all events as conspired against him. He also thinks he can predict them. It is a surrealist story, which fits in a tradition of surrealist writing in Dutch literature. However, the story does not contain elements of absurdism. In some ways the story is related to Bernlef's main theme of being out of mind in one's perception of reality. ( )