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 ...
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 ...
May 11, 2011 · The Assault, probably Mulisch's most well known work, is to my mind the best account ever written of being a non-Jew in an occupied Nazi ...
Jun 21, 2012 · The execution of a collaborator and Nazi retaliation on the family of twelve-year-old Anton Steenwijk have lasting repercussions in Anton's ...
Harry Mulisch's much-praised 1982 novel De Aanslag' (published in. English in 1985 as The Assault), are set in the darkness of a winter night in German ...
Nov 3, 1985 · The first occurs in 1956, when Anton, now 23, returns to his flat during an anti-Communist riot and is jostled by a rioter--who turns out to be ...
Jun 6, 2012 · All I knew of the book before opening it was that it concerned a man whose entire family was killed by the Nazis during the Second World War as ...
Complexity In Harry Mulisch's The Assault ... Authors often write with total purpose; every metaphor, every symbol, and every detail relating back to the novel's ...
May 1, 1991 · "This is the highest kind of achievement of which fiction is capable. . . . Ranks with the finest European fiction of recent years.
Harry Mulisch. Praise for Siegfried " A Dutch master imagines secrets of Adolph and Eva .... Smoothly packed , insightfully imagined , provocatively ...