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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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Apr 9, 2009 · The Assault by Harry Mulisch is a beautifully written book, starting with its lyrical prologue in which we are introduced to the quiet ...
Oct 16, 2015 · Mulisch also pulls no punches in relation to the dead body that inspires the assault. When Fake Ploeg is shot a neighbour moves the corpse so ...
Apr 25, 2017 · The Assault by Harry Mulisch. Second World War. Holland under the Nazi occupation. The drama of a nation, the tragedies of millions of people ...
May 11, 2011 · The Assault, probably Mulisch's most well known work, is to my mind the best account ever written of being a non-Jew in an occupied Nazi ...
Jun 21, 2012 · The execution of a collaborator and Nazi retaliation on the family of twelve-year-old Anton Steenwijk have lasting repercussions in Anton's ...
Harry Mulisch's much-praised 1982 novel De Aanslag' (published in. English in 1985 as The Assault), are set in the darkness of a winter night in German ...