Harry Mulisch is a writer Dutch born in 1927 with Haarlem. He is regarded as one of the largest contemporary Dutch novelists, by itself too. He is prize winner of highest literary distinctions the Dutchwomen.
His/her father was an Austro-Hungarian emigrated in the Netherlands after the First World War and, during the Second world war, employed of a German bank with sympathies Nazis, which was worth three years of prison to him after the war. His/her mother was Jewish. During the war, Harry had the age of puberty. Harry and its mother could avoid the deportation in a concentration camp thanks to the contacts of his/her father with the Nazis. Especially for this reason he said: “I am the Second world war”. Mulisch was especially high by the servant of its parents, Frieda Falk.
Topics
The Second world war was a deciding factor in the life of Harry Mulisch and form a dominating topic in its work of writer. In 1963, it writes a test on the case Eichmann: case 40/61 . The large novels centered on the Second world war are the Attack , Noces of stone , and Siegfried .Moreover, Mulisch often inserts old legends or myths in its writings, such as Greek mythology in the Elements , Jewish mythology in the Discovery of the sky and the Procedure , and of the legends very known on cities. It uses also political topics. Mulisch is a Socialist who, in his youth, defended Fidel Castro.
Re-elected
Mulisch has many people of readers and, according to its commentators, likes to spread out its knowledge. It gained an international reputation after the adaptation in 1986 of its book the Attack . The film was crowned by a Golden Globe Award and a Oscar of best foreign film; the book was then translated in addition to twenty languages. Its novel the Discovery of the sky (1992) was adapted in 2001 by the realizer Jeroen Krabbé with the actor Stephen Fry in the main role.
Mulisch received a great number of prices and rewards for individual books like for the whole of its works, of which most prestigious: the Price Constantijn Huygens and the Price PC Hooft, all two in 1977, and the Price of the Letters Dutchwomen in 1995. In 2007, the novel the Discovery of the sky was elected Meilleur Dutch novel of all times .
Works
For a bibliography supplements of Harry Mulisch, to see the list in.
French translations
- Weddings of stone ( Het stenen bruidsbed , 1959), novel translated by Maddy Buysse and Noble Philippe. Calmann-Levy, 1985
- the Business 40-61 ( Of zaak 40-61 , 1961). On the Eichmann lawsuit. Translated by Mireille Cohendy. Gallimard, 2003
- Two women ( Twee vrouwen , 1975), translated by Noble Philippe. Actes Sud, 1987.
- the Attack ( Of aanslag , 1982), translated by Noble Philippe. Calmann-Levy, 1984, ISBN 2-7021-1298-6
- the Pupil ( Of pupil , 1987), news translated by Isabelle Rosselin-Bobulesco. Actes Sud, 1989.
- the Elements ( Of elementen , 1988), news translated by Isabelle Rosselin-Bobulesco. Actes Sud, 1992.
- the Discovery of the sky ( Of ontdekking van of hemel , 1992), novel translated by Isabelle Rosselin, with the Noble collaboration of Philippe. Gallimard, 1999.
- the Procedure ( Of procedure , 1998), novel translated by Isabelle Rosselin. Gallimard, 2001.
- Siegfried. A black idylle ( Siegfried. Een zwarte idylle , 2000), novel translated by Anita Concas. Gallimard, 2003.
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