Jan 27, 2020 · book: The Procedure (1998; trans Paul Vincent 2001) by Harry Mulisch ... The front-flap blurb of my copy of this novel tells me that its author ...
A hated Dutch police officer working for the Germans is murdered in front of Anton's house. His Jewish family, mother, father and brother, were killed by the ...
Nov 18, 2010 · […] Mookse and the Gripes reviews a book from the 1980′s that I have never heard of – The Assault by Harry Mulisch and it looks quite ...
Nov 3, 1985 · The first occurs in 1956, when Anton, now 23, returns to his flat during an anti-Communist riot and is jostled by a rioter--who turns out to be ...
Jun 6, 2012 · All I knew of the book before opening it was that it concerned a man whose entire family was killed by the Nazis during the Second World War as ...
Complexity In Harry Mulisch's The Assault ... Authors often write with total purpose; every metaphor, every symbol, and every detail relating back to the novel's ...
Nov 23, 2010 · The novel is suffused with a sense of prisons: "hermetically sealed somewhere deep inside him ... boundaries have to be continually sealed off, ...
May 1, 2020 · Mulisch, Harry. The Assault. Dutch author Harry Mulisch's The Assault (Dutch: De Aanslag) covers 35 years of the life of Anton Steenwijk, a ...
It is the winter of 1945, the last dark days of World War II in occupied Holland. A Nazi collaborator, infamous for his cruelty, is assassinated as he rides ...
In a newspaper poll of 2007, Dutch readers voted it 'the best Dutch-language book ever'. Siegfried (2001), a dazzling literary investigation into the rise of ...