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Name: Teiz
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Subject: RE: Harry Mulisch...those were the days...
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Time: 12:23:43 PM
Remote Address: 82.93.120.167
Message ID: 245430
Parent ID: 245397
Thread ID: 245336
It depends on what you're looking for LG,
The Assault is the most realistic novel of the bunch: it deals with the impact World War II had on the lives of an ordinary family. (they made a movie out of it in the 80s, it won an Oscar)
The Discovery Of Heaven is considered his most important work. It's a larger than life story where myth meets science. It covers every theme that Mulisch covered. Some pretty farfetched subplots, but it is a classic.
The Procedure reads like it was meant as the epilogue of the Discovery.
Siegfried deals with the question 'what if Hitler had a son', featuring Mulisch as an even older writer: he kind of plays with his reputation as the most arogant man in Dutch literature. I thought it was spot on, but it annoyed the crap out of a lot of people (including Bart, judging from the way he responded to my previous post)
Anyway: I'd go for The Discovery Of Heaven.
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