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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Harry Mulisch
"This is the highest kind of achievement of which fiction is capable. . . . Ranks with the finest European fiction of recent years."--The Christian Science Monitor Uli Bouwmeester is a retired variety artiste who spends his days whiling away his time. Out of the blue, an invitation arrives to play the leading part in a new drama at the Actor's Theater in Amsterdam, and he is flung with a vengeance from the monotony of life in the suburbs into the reality of the 1980s. All goes well until a television crew arrives to interview Uli, revealing a secret from his past that threatens not only the success of the theater's enterprise but also Uli's life. "In his corner of Europe, Dutch novelist Harry Mulisch is creating some of the more haunting, provocative fiction to emerge from the continent in the past decade."--New York Newsday
"Exhilerating, magnificent, dangerous." -- The Times Literary Supplement (London) One of the great novels of the Twentieth Century, described by John Updike as a meditation on "the persistence of trauma, the rapacity of eros, the fragility of our orderly schemes" On a cold night in Holland two men meet and change each other's lives forever. Max Delius - a hedonistic, yet brilliant astronomer who loves fast cars, nice clothes and beautiful women - picks up Onno Quist, a cerebral chaotic philologist who cannot bear the ordinariness of everyday life. Despite their differences, they fast become great friends.And when they learn they were conceived on the same day, it is clear that their meeting is no coincidence. As the pair fall into and out of love with the same woman - Ada - so their lives become further intertwined. For all three are on a mysterious journey destined to shape human history.The Discovery of Heaven is internationally recognized as a masterpiece. Rich in philosophical, psychological, historical and theological enquiry, it is an extravagant, bold and satisfying novel of ideas.
Internationally renowned novelist Harry Mulisch's The Procedure is a haunting and fascinating novel about two men who try to create life but fail. In the late sixteenth century, Rabbi Jehudah L w, in order to guarantee the safety of the Jews in Prague, creates a golem by following a procedure outlined in a third-century cabalist text. Four hundred years later, Victor Werker, a Dutch biologist mourning the loss of his stillborn daughter, causes an international uproar when he creates a complex organic clay crystal that can reproduce and has a metabolism. But his unsettling discovery takes its toll as his inner and outer demons pursue him around the world, from California to Venice, Cairo, and Jerusalem.
A bracing meditation on the nature of evil and a moving evocation of the human heart, Siegfried is one of Harry Mulisch's most powerful novels. After a reading of his work, renowned Dutch author Rudolf Herter, who had recently commented in a television interview that it may be only through fiction that the uniquely evil figure of Adolf Hitler can be truly comprehended, is approached by an elderly couple. The pair reveal that as domestic servants in Hitler's Bavarian retreat in the waning years of the war, they were witness to the jealously guarded birth of Siegfried--the son of Hitler and Eva Braun. For more than fifty years they have kept silent about the child they once raised as their own. Only now and only to Herter are they willing to reveal their astonishing story.
On a cold night in Holland two men meet and change each other's lives forever. Max Delius - a hedonistic, yet brilliant astronomer who loves fast cars, nice clothes and beautiful women - picks up Onno Quist, a cerebral chaotic philologist who cannot bear the ordinariness of everyday life. Despite their differences, they fast become great friends.And when they learn they were conceived on the same day, it is clear that their meeting is no coincidence. As the pair fall into and out of love with the same woman - Ada - so their lives become further intertwined. For all three are on a mysterious journey destined to shape human history. The Discovery of Heaven is internationally recognized as a masterpiece. Rich in philosophical, psychological, historical and theological enquiry, it is an extravagant, bold and satisfying novel of ideas.
The execution of a collaborator and Nazi retaliation on the family of twelve-year-old Anton Steenwijk have lasting repercussions in Anton's life as he learns, through chance encounters, the truth of one harrowing night
A timeless classic from the author of The Discovery of Heaven 'Fuelled with energy, drama and emotional weight, combined with a light touch and a fast-moving story. Grab it while you can' Times 'Acknowledged as Holland's finest novelist' Guardian 'Mulisch is a rarity ... an instinctively psychological novelist' John Updike In the bitter final months of the Second World War, the body of a Dutch Nazi collaborator is found on the doorstep of an ordinary family home. The repercussions are complex and terrible: the family is killed and the house burned to the ground; only the twelve-year-old son, Anton, survives. Following Anton as he reckons with this trauma through his life, The Assault is a powerful excavation of resistance and the collateral damage wrought on innocent people in times of war. A runaway bestseller that sold 200,000 copies on first publication, this is a classic of Dutch literature from one of the greatest European writers of his time. With an introduction by Thomas Harding, author of Hanns and Rudolf
Dick Bender, ein erfolgreiches Werbemanager, verbringt mit seiner attracktiven Frau und seinen beiden wohlgeratenen Kindern den Sommerurlaub in einer Luxusvilla auf Kreta. Das Leben scheint in geordneten Bahnen zu verlaufen; Veränderungen werden nur in Betracht gezogen, wenn sie überschaubar sind. Bis Dick die Aufmerksamkeit der griechischen Götter auf sich zieht und zu ihrem Spielball wird ...
Nach einer gescheiterten Ehe verliebt sich Laura in die Friseuse Sylvia. Zum ersten Mal in ihrem Leben geht sie mit einer Frau ins Bett. Ein Chaos der Empfindungen bricht aus: Schuldgefühle, Befreiung, Begeisterung, das Gefühl, bisher etwas versäumt zu haben. Lauras Kinderwunsch bringt Sylvia auf einen irrwitzigen Plan. Sie beginnt ein Verhältnis mit tödlichem Ausgang.
Ein achtzehnjähriger Tankstellengehilfe wird von einem Rolls-Royce Phantom II aufgelesen und zum "Augenstern" einer reichen alten Dame, die auf Capri ein großes Haus führt. Sie ist die Witwe des Erfinders der Sicherheitsnadel. Doch das stilvolle Luxusleben im Palazzo bricht für den plötzlichen Dandy, der nun endgültig Schriftsteller werden will, jäh wieder zusammen. Der Traum eines Taugenichts ? Wirklichkeit ? Eine phantastische autobiographische Erinnerung von Harry Mulisch.
Archibald Strohalm sieht rot: Die christlich missionierenden Vorstellungen des Puppenspielers, die er jeden Samstag besucht, sind nicht dazu geeignet, Ungläubige zu bekehren. Er könnte es selbst viel besser! Archibald tauscht sein wohl organisiertes, gutbürgerliches Leben gegen eine Künstlerexistenz ein und schreibt sein erstes Stück. Als er dieses aufführt, kommt es zur Katastrophe.
Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Harry Mulisch; Deborah Dwork
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
2009
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The trial of Adolf Eichmann began in 1961 under a deceptively simple label, "criminal case 40/61." Hannah Arendt covered the trial for the New Yorker magazine and recorded her observations in Eichmann in Jerusalem: The Banality of Evil. Harry Mulisch was also assigned to cover the trial for a Dutch news weekly. Arendt would later say in her book's preface that Mulisch was one of the few people who shared her views on the character of Eichmann. At the time, Mulisch was a young and little-known writer; in the years since he has since emerged as an author of major international importance, celebrated for such novels as The Assault and The Discovery of Heaven. Mulisch modestly called his book on case 40/61 a report, and it is certainly that, as he gives firsthand accounts of the trial and its key players and scenes (the defendant's face strangely asymmetric and riddled by tics, his speech absurdly baroque). Eichmann's character comes out in his incessant bureaucratizing and calculating, as well as in his grandiose visions of himself as a Pontius Pilate-like innocent. As Mulisch intersperses his dispatches from Jerusalem with meditative accounts of a divided and ruined Berlin, an eerily rebuilt Warsaw, and a visit to the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichmann becomes as a disturbing and highly personal essay on the Nazi extermination of European Jews and on the human capacity to commit evil ever more efficiently in an age of technological advancement. Here presented with a foreword by Deborah Dwork and translated for the first time into English, Criminal Case 40/61 provides the reader with an unsettling portrait not only of Eichmann's character but also of technological precision and expertise. It is a landmark of Holocaust writing.
Winter, 1948, country town dunny.The body of a young man was found with a deep branding mark on his backand a broad red streak down his forehead.Detective Harry Taylor is sent to investigate.He recognises the mark as that of a red raddle, a crayon used by farmers on livestock.Four days later another body was found with a similar branding and raddle mark.Were the victims chosen at random?Was there more than one killer?Would they kill again?Were the public safe?What was the motivation behind these gruesome deaths?
