books by Harry Mulisch

books by Harry Mulisch

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Harry Mulisch

Harry Mulisch

Pantheon, 1986

Haunted and haunting
In a Haarlem street the Dutch Resistance kills an active collaborator. In retaliation the Germans have destroyed a house in that street in which live ten-year-oldAnton Steenwijk with his parents and elder brother. Anton survives, but his parents and brother are killed. ...

The Discovery of Heaven

Harry Mulisch

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1997

The Discovery of Heaven
Two angels are conversing. Apparently, Francis Bacon - the 16th century scientist credited with establishing, among other things, the scientific methodology known as the 'Baconian Method' - made a pact with the devil, which caused humanity to lose their way with God, ...

De Ontdekking van de Hemel (Dutch) (Dutch Edition)

Harry Mulisch

De Bezige Bij, 1992

Revealing the Unthinkable
As most people know, Harry Mulisch is one of the best Dutch writers of modern times. Even His Holiness adored this book, his masterpiece: De Ontdekking van de Hemel. It is a novel that amazes you time and time again. The novel starts in heaven. A couple of angels are ...

Siegfried

Harry Mulisch

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2004

Does not reach all the way...
This book is perhaps a bit more complex and deep than most readers, including I, are used to. I think he bases his book on a quote from Nietzsche: "When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." That is what the protagonist of the book does, and pays a ...

Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichmann: An Eyewitness Account (Personal Takes)
Harry Mulisch

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005

Under a deceptively simple label, "criminal case 40/61," the trial of Adolf Eichmann began in 1961. 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 ...

The Procedure

Harry Mulisch

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002

Yet another endlessly satisying masterpiece from Mulisch
In many ways, I admire this book more than Mulisch's deservedly decorated opus The Discovery of Heaven. The Procedure is a tightly written novel that manages to incorporate a number of TDOH's humanist themes in a more complex and disturbing manner. This book is much, ...

Last Call

Harry Mulisch

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1991

dazzling! Total theatre; total literature. Magic winding plo
Mulisch accomplished here again a dazzling novel. It is theatre withing theatre. In intricate winding of lives, the old actor, Uli Bouwmeester performs his last role of the last role of the older actor de Vries in Shakespeares Tempest, Prospero.As magically as ...

Cuba
Harry Mulisch, 1981

In German language. Reizigers Avenue Classics 1: Suriname by Willem Frederik Hermans; Cuba by Harry Mulisch; Mali by Cees Nooteboom; Israel by Renate Rubinstein; and Amerika by Annie M. G. Schmidt.