Nooit meer slapen (Literatuur van die Lae lande) (Afrikaans Edition)

Hermans, Willem Frederik

Academica

Beyond Sleep

The young Dutch geologist Alfred Issendorf is determined to win fame for making a great discovery. To this end he joins a small geological expedition, which travels to the far North of Norway, where he hopes to prove a series of craters were caused by meteorites, but ultimately realizes he's more likely to drown in a fjord or be eaten by parasites. Unable to procure crucial aerial photographs, and beset by mosquitoes and insomnia in his freezing leaky tent, Alfred becomes increasingly desperate and paranoid. Haunted by the ghost of his scientist father, unable to escape the looming influence of his mother, and anxious to complete the thesis that will make his name, he moves toward the final act of vanity which will trigger a catastrophe. A deadpan comedy often subtly calling up the works of Heller or Vonnegut at their best, Beyond Sleep is a unique and illuminating examination of how hard it is to be a true pioneer in the modern world. Beyond Sleep is a masterpiece.

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

Harry N. Abrams

A new translation of an acclaimed Dutch thriller finds tobacconist Henri Osewoudt visited by a man named Dorbeck during the German occupation of Holland and given a series of increasingly dangerous assignments designed to help British agents to eliminate traitors, tasks that challenge him morally and eventually put his own loyalty on trial.

The Darkroom of Damocles: A Novel

Literary

The Overlook Press

During the German occupation of Holland, tobacconist Henri Osewoudt is visited by a man named Dorbeck, who strangely proves to be Osewoudt’s spitting image in reverse. Dorbeck assigns Osewoudt to commit a series of dangerous assignments but things quickly go awry, with Osewoudt eventually killing his own wife. After the war, Osewoudt is taken for a traitor and captured. Osewoudt cannot prove that he received assignments from Dorbeck―he cannot even prove that his doppelganger ever existed.

Genre Fiction

A brooding meditation on violence by a classic post-war Dutch writer who has drawn comparisons to Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut. A mesmerizing, dark meditation on the legacy of war. An interloper and opportunist makes a grand house his own in the chaos of a war-torn countryside, only to find himself involved with occupying forces and enraged locals.

An Untouched House

United States

Archipelago

Willem Frederik Hermans's lucid and exhilarating WWII masterpiece in a razor-sharp translation by David Colmer A Guardian Angel Recalls is a gripping and diabolical wartime novel by one of the most provocative Dutch writers of the twentieth-century. &nbsp; Alberegt, a frenzied and lovelorn public prosecutor, speeds through Hook of Holland in his black Renault on May 9, 1940 - the eve of the German invasion of the Netherlands. Guiding his every move is a guardian angel. &nbsp; With unflappable patience, the angel flits from the hood of the Renault to the rim of his windswept hat, determined to quell his every anxiety and doubt. The angel's momentary distraction, however, sets off a chain of events that spins a nightmarish web. &nbsp; Alberegt's elusive companion serves both as narrator and meddlesome driver of the plot, though not without the interventions of a rotating cast of devils.

A Guardian Angel Recalls

La maison préservée

Gallimard]

Die Dunkelkammer des Damokles.

Hüsmert, Waltraud

Kiepenheuer

Nie mehr schlafen

Contemporary

Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verlag

Durante la ocupacion nazi de Holanda, el jovencisimo estanquero Henri Osewoudt vive al margen de los acontecimientos hasta que recibe la visita del misterioso Dorbeck, un miembro activo de la resistencia. Alter ego del protagonista, a quien se parece Â«como el negativo de una foto se parece al positivoÂ», Dorbeck pide a Osewoudt que revele unos carretes con, al parecer, informacion clave sobre los intereses nazis: sera la primera de las muchas misiones clandestinas en las que se vera envuelto el protagonista. Sin embargo, cuando los Aliados liberen el pais, la implicacion de Osewoudt como heroe de la resistencia se cuestionara al ser arrestado y acusado de colaborar con los alemanes. Fascinante thriller de guerra, El cuarto oscuro de Damocles es una historia de traicion, mentiras y ambigÃ¼edad moral que lleva al lector a dudar de la realidad, como les sucede a los personajes. Mas alla de la envolvente intriga, no exenta del existencialismo que impregna sus obras, Hermans construye un complejo mundo de equivocos para abordar la fragilidad de la percepcion humana. / A modern day masterpiece and the most critically acclaimed Dutch novel of the 20th centuryfinally available in English and shortlisted by Three Percent as one of the best translated books of 2008. During the German occupation of Holland, tobacconist Henri Osewoudt is visited by a man named Dorbeck, who strangely proves to be Osewoudts spitting image in reverse. Dorbeck assigns Osewoudt to commit a series of dangerous assignments, but things quickly go awry, with Osewouldt eventually killing his own wife. After the war, Osewoudt is taken for a traitor and captured. Osewoudt cannot prove that he received assignments from Dorbeckhe cannot even prove that his doppelganger ever existed. As it forces readers to confront questions of morality and power, right and wrong, The Darkroom of Damocles builds to a stunning conclusion.

El cuarto oscuro de Damocles (Spanish Edition)

Tusquets Editores S.A.

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