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De ontdekking van de hemel Harry Mulisch publisher: De Bezige Bij, 1992 translated as: The Discovery of Heaven publisher: Querido, Amsterdam, 1996 translation: Paul Vincent refered to by: The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann The Tin Drum Günter Grass [De ruimte van Sokolov] Leon de Winter full text search: the ledge - flash version* *	summary: "WWII novels" On a cold night in Holland, Max Delius picks up Onno Quist, a chaotic philologist who cannot bear the banalities of everyday life.	They are like fire and water. But when they learn that they were conceived on the same day, it is clear that something extraordinary is about to happen.
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	BOOKS BY HARRY MULISCH: The Assault 1982 "WWII novels" The story of Anton, a boy whose family is killed in reprisal by the Germans after the body of a Dutch Nazi police chief, killed by the Resistance, is dumped on their doorstep.
ON HARRY MULISCH'S BOOKSHELF The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann, 1924 The story of Hans Castorp, a modern everyman who spends seven years in an Alpine sanatorium for tuberculosis patients, finally leaving to become a soldier in World War I. Fictions Jorges Luis Borges, 1935/ 1944 / 1949 This is a collection of Borges's fiction, translated and gathered into a single volume. From his 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through the influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, to his final work from the 1980s, Shakespeare Memory. The Aleph and Other Stories Jorges Luis Borges, 1949 In stories that play with the very form of the short story, in this collection, Borges returns again and again to his themes: dreams, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gaucho knife-fighters, transparent tigers, and the elusive nature of identity itself. Faust Johann Wolfgang Goethe, 1808 / 1832 The first part, in particular, of this unpredictable, philosophical tragedy-in-rhyme - about a scientist who sells his soul to the devil - reads like a novel. Eureka, a prose poem Edgar Allan Poe, 1848 The creation of the world, its continued existence, and its ultimate end. Letter to His Father Franz Kafka, 1919 This is a letter never sent, from Kafka, the tormented son, to his father Hermann. [De ongelofelijke avonturen van Bram Vingerling] Leonard Roggeveen, 1927 A 'boy's book' about the amazing adventures of a youthful alchemist.	The Discovery of Heaven 1992 "WWII novels" On a cold night in Holland, Max Delius picks up Onno Quist, a chaotic philologist who cannot bear the banalities of everyday life. They are like fire and water. But when they learn that they were conceived on the same day, it is clear that something extraordinary is about to happen.	WHAT TO READ AFTER THE DISCOVERY OF HEAVEN? COMPLEXITIES Earthly Powers Anthony Burgess, 1980 About a writer and the man to whom he is linked through family ties, an earthy Italian priest destined to become Pope. Foucault's Pendulum Umberto Eco, 1988 A wily group of editors devises a mock formula for tapping the mystical powers of the universe, only to set off a series of mysterious disappearances. Lemprière's Dictionary Lawrence Norfolk, 1991 At its center of this novel is John Lemprière, a (real) figure whose 1788 dictionary of mythology insists on springing to gruesome life. MYTHICAL WRITING The Sorrow of Belgium Hugo Claus, 1983 The Sorrow of Belgium centers on early adolescence, Catholicism, and on a boy turning not into a man but into that slightly different beast, a writer. - Richard Burns (The Independent) The Flounder Günter Grass, 1977 First published in 1977, this novel is based on the fairy story 'The Fisherman and His Wife'. Multi-layered and laced with poetry and humour, it analyzes the battle of the sexes. [De keisnijder van Fichtenwald] Louis Ferron, 1976 Decline of a hunchback in the Nazi era. POSTWAR HOLLAND (THE RAGING SIXTIES) Turkish Delight Jan Wolkers, 1969 Love in times of free sex and 'Marxist garden gnomes.' [Onder professoren] Willem Frederik Hermans, 1975 Backstabbing and social disaster after a chemistry professor wins the Noble Prize. I, Jan Cremer Jan Cremer, 1964 The literary autobiography of the writer and artist Jan Cremer, in many respects the Dutch answer to Jack Kerouac. THE COMPLEAT NOVEL Gargantua and Pantagruel François Rabelais, 1532-1553 The classic satirical and ribald tale about the travels of Gargantua and Pantagruel, set in the French countryside. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Laurence Sterne, 1759-1767 Part novel, part digression, this gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate 'hero' Tristram Shandy, the eccentric philosophy of his father Walter, the amours and military obsessions of Uncle Toby, and a host of other characters. The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky, 1880 Three sons find their violent and vengeful lives exposed when their despicable father is murdered, and each man struggles to come to terms with his guilt over his involvement in the crime.
	The Stone Bridal Bed 1959 'WW II novels' Postwar journey of an American pilot to the Dresden he helped to destroy takes on mythical proportions.
	Last Call 1985
	The Procedure 1998 Microbiologist (modern-day alchemist) makes his own golem.
	Siegfried 2001 What if Hitler had a son? Mulisch mixes philosophical reflection and psychological inquiry into an exploration of the single-minded quest of a Dutch writer determined to understand the source of the German dictator's terrible power.
	[Het zwarte licht] 1956 After a traumatic experience, a young man decides to break off his engineering studies to become an artist.
	Two Women 1975 Lesbian relationship ends in murder (by doubly-deceived man) of one of the women.
	[De versierde mens] 1957 Seven stories in which mythology, fantasy, and reality come together.
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