On water (in Dutch Over het toilets ) is a Romance of H. Mr. van den Brink (1998), novel translated from Dutch by Anita Concas. , Editions Gallimard, “Of the whole world”, 2000,160 p., 14,03 €. Proposed for General Bank Literatuurprijs, Libris Literatuurprijs, Independent Foreign Prize Fiction, the Price Femina and the Price Médicis, rewarded for Euregioprijs.

Summary

The action of the novel starts in a club nautical, right before the release of the Second world war, whereas Europe retains its breath, in summer 1939. Anton of an popular environment hardly worries about the businesses of the world: it finds its David fellow-member for drives of Aviron, a two without cox on the Amstel. Its happiness is made “ flesh, muscles, of sun and wood, water and stone ”. All the novel turns around a all the more painful description as it evokes the precision and the beauty of the movement, the taste of the effort, perfection of water. Anton lives only for its exits on water to find this perfect agreement with another body, for a competition wanted by their German trainer who will never take place. However this summer will be the last, because David is Jewish.

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