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The Penguin Book of Dutch Short Stories
'The stories here will provoke, delight and impress. Joost Zwagerman's selection forms a fascinating guidebook to a landscape you'll surely want to wander in again.' Clare Lowden, TLS 'There is a lot of northern European melancholy in the collection, though often tinged with wry humour...an excellent book' Jonathan Gibbs, Minor Literatures 'We were kids - but good kids. If I may say so myself. We're much smarter now, so smart it's pathetic. Except for Bavink, who went crazy' A husband forms gruesome plans for his new fridge; a government employee has a haunting experience on his commute home; prisoners serve as entertainment for wealthy party guests; an army officer suffers a monstrous tropi...
Uitgelezen 15
Vanuit protestants christelijk standpunt wordt informatie verschaft over het werk van de Nederlandse en Vlaamse auteurs uit de 20e eeuw.
Late Modern Subjectivity and its Discontents
This book analyses three of the most prevalent illnesses of late modernity: anxiety, depression and Alzheimer’s disease, in terms of their relation to cultural pathologies of the social body. Usually these conditions are interpreted clinically in terms of individualized symptoms and responded to discretely, as though for the most part unrelated to each other. However, these diseases also have a social and cultural profile that transcends their particular symptomologies and etiologies. Anxiety, depression and Alzheimer’s are diseases related to disorders of the collective esprit de corps of contemporary society. Multidisciplinary in approach, the book addresses questions of how these cond...
Zes sterren
'Je slaat Zes sterren dicht met een onontkoombaar besef van sterfelijkheid. Hulde voor de schrijver die dat bij zijn lezers losmaakt.' - Algemeen Dagblad Siem Merkelbach is hoofdredacteur van een florerend tijdschrift over hotels. Met zijn neef Justus reist hij stad en land af om hotelmanagers te paaien. Op een dag wordt Siem dood in zijn woning gevonden. Justus besluit in de voetsporen van zijn oom langs de hotels te trekken, waarbij steeds meer vragen opkomen. Als eerste natuurlijk: waarom pleegde zijn oom zelfmoord? ‘Zwagerman durft de grote vragen van het leven aan te gaan op een eerlijke, mooie en goed doordachte manier.’ – 8weekly ‘Stilistisch vuurwerk.’ – Noordhollands Dagblad
Suicide in Modern Literature
This book analyzes the social and contextual causes of suicide, the existential and philosophical reasons for committing suicide, and the prevention strategies that modern fictional literature places at our disposal. They go through the review of Modern fictional literature, in the American and European geographical framework, following the rationales that modern literature based on fiction can serve the purpose of understanding better the phenomenon of suicide, its most inaccessible impulses, and that has the potential to prevent suicide. From the turn of the 20th century to the present, debates over the meaning of suicide became a privileged site for efforts to discover the reasons why peo...
Gimme shelter
Architecture and perspective are the common denominators in the oeuvre of Hans Vandekerckhove. Gimme Shelter illustrates 90 of his paintings. Both at home and abroad, Hans Vandekerckhove has been a big name in the art world for quite some time. He has had (solo) expositions in the SMAK museum in Ghent, and the Mu.Zee museum in Ostend, as well as in Amsterdam, Madrid and Frankfurt. In 'Gimme Shelter', Hans has compiled all of his work, which originated from his passion for architecture, ranging from the archetypes from his youth, when he had a studio in his uncle's greenhouse, modern architecture by Mies van de Rohe, and the buildings by Peter Zumthor, to the need of a 'home', as a breeding g...
Dark Matters
An intellectual history of the philosophers who grappled with the problem of evil, and the case for why pessimism still holds moral value for us today In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, philosophers engaged in heated debates on the question of how God could have allowed evil and suffering in a creation that is supposedly good. Dark Matters traces how the competing philosophical traditions of optimism and pessimism arose from early modern debates about the problem of evil, and makes a compelling case for the rediscovery of pessimism as a source for compassion, consolation, and perhaps even hope. Bringing to life one of the most vibrant eras in the history of philosophy, Mara van der...
Wakend over God
Wakend over God beschrijft de geloofsstrijd van een naamloos blijvend ik, die soms in zijn verbeelding, soms letterlijk, met het Opperwezen in gevecht raakt. Zwagerman bezingt in diverse toonaarden het gevecht met de Engel. Allerlei facetten van een denk- en navoelbare verhouding met God passeren de revue: verwachting, troost, woede, verbittering, loochening en uiteindelijk berusting. In Wakend over God heeft Zwagerman zijn taal uitgebeend en kaal geschraapt. Een literaire tour de force.
De buitenvrouw
Dus jij valt niet op blanke mannen, zei hij tegen haar. Nou nee. Dat kwam er zó hartgrondig uit dat hij een steek van ergernis voelde. Theo Altena, leraar Nederlands en gelukkig getrouwd, krijgt een affaire met de Surinaamse docente Iris Pompier. Een roman over liefde, leugens en zelfbedrog. Maar ook over moedwil en misverstand in het multiculturele Nederland.
Infidel
One of today’s most admired and controversial political figures, Ayaan Hirsi Ali burst into international headlines following the murder of Theo van Gogh by an Islamist who threatened that she would be next. She made headlines again when she was stripped of her citizenship and resigned from the Dutch Parliament. Infidel shows the coming of age of this distinguished political superstar and champion of free speech as well as the development of her beliefs, iron will, and extraordinary determination to fight injustice. Raised in a strict Muslim family, Hirsi Ali survived civil war, female mutilation, brutal beatings, adolescence as a devout believer during the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, ...
