Mar 29, 2016 · The following paper will attempt to offer a new perspective on the significance of same-sex love within the novel, analysing the protagonist's ...
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, ...
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 ...
A hated Dutch police officer working for the Germans is murdered in front of Anton's house. His Jewish family, mother, father and brother, were killed by the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mar 17, 2010 · The AssaultHarry MulischIn 1945, in the final throes of the Nazi occupation of Haarlem, Anton Steenwijk's parents and older brother are ...
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 ...
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It is the winter of 1945, the last dark days of World War II in occupied Holland. A Nazi collaborator, infamous for his cruelty, is assassinated as he.