Willem Frederik Hermans (1921–1995)
Autor(a) de The Darkroom of Damocles
About the Author
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Séries
Obras por Willem Frederik Hermans
In de mist van het schimmenrijk : fragmenten uit het oorlogsdagboek van de student Karel R. (1993) 334 exemplares
Volledige werken. 7: Verhalen en novellen : Moedwil en misverstand, Paranoia, Een landingspoging op Newfoundland en… (2005) 46 exemplares
Volledige werken. 2: Romans: Ik heb altijd gelijk, De God Denkbaar, Denkbaar de God, Drie melodrama's (2008) 30 exemplares
Volledige werken. 12: Beschouwend werk : Boze brieven van Bijkaart, Houten leeuwen en leeuwen van goud (2005) 30 exemplares
Machines en emoties : Willem Frederik Hermans, Rudy Kousbroek, Ethel Portnoy : een briefwisseling (2009) 27 exemplares
Volledige werken /11 . Beschouwend werk:Het sadistisch universum 1en 2; Annum Veritatis; De laatste resten tropisch… (2008) 26 exemplares
Madelon in de mist van het schimmenrijk : fragmenten uit het oorlogsdagboek van de student Karel R. (1994) 22 exemplares
Ze zullen eikels zaaien op mijn graf : teruggevonden gesprekken met Willem Frederik Hermans (1995) 15 exemplares
Wittgenstein in de mode 12 exemplares
Hermans is hier geweest 10 exemplares
Mondelinge mededelingen : over Oorlog en literatuur, Van duisternis tot licht, en terug, Schrijver en auteursrecht,… (1987) 10 exemplares
Hollywood 7 exemplares
Annum veritatis 6 exemplares
Het lek in de eeuwigheid 6 exemplares
Hypnodrome 5 exemplares
Preambule : manuscript in een kliniek gevonden 5 exemplares
Filip's sonatine ; De zegelring 4 exemplares
De leproos van Molokaï 3 exemplares
Hundertwasser, honderdvijf en meer verhalen 3 exemplares
Erosie 3 exemplares
Bijzondere tekens 3 exemplares
Horror Coeli en andere gedichten 3 exemplares
Verboden toegang: Essays over het werk van Willem Frederik Hermans, gevolgd door een vraaggesprek met de schrijver (1989) 2 exemplares
De anatomie van de schrijfmachine 2 exemplares
Tirade 2 exemplares
Een anekdote 2 exemplares
Antiquariaat Schuhmacher 2 exemplares
De Mandarijnenpers 2 exemplares
Willem Frederik Hermans 2 exemplares
De psychologische test 2 exemplares
Het omgekeerde pension 2 exemplares
In contact met het werk 2 exemplares
Set publieksedities W.F. Hermans 1 exemplar
Overzicht bodemgroepen 1 exemplar
Willem Frederik Hermans: Volledige Werken 1 exemplar
Suidafrikaantjies! 1 exemplar
Volledige werken deel 1&7 1 exemplar
Misdaad stelt de wet 1 exemplar
Dit is door en door gemeen! 1 exemplar
Misdaad aan de Noordpool 1 exemplar
W.F. Hermans en Groningen 1 exemplar
Een foto uit eigen doos 1 exemplar
Mandarijnen op zwavelzuur. 1 : Het geweten van de Groene Amsterdammer of Volg het spoor omhoog 1 exemplar
Een toerist 1 exemplar
Mayerling 1 exemplar
Pang 1 exemplar
Openbaar leven 1 exemplar
Fenomenologie van de pin-up girl 1 exemplar
Dutch comfort 1 exemplar
De onversleten wandelaar 1 exemplar
De demon van ivoor 1 exemplar
Associated Works
De Nederlandse poëzie van de negentiende en twintigste eeuw in duizend en enige gedichten (1979) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 193 exemplares
De Nederlandse en Vlaamse literatuur vanaf 1880 in 250 verhalen (2005) — Contribuidor — 74 exemplares
De Nederlandse en Vlaamse literatuur vanaf 1880 in 60 lange verhalen (2006) — Contribuidor — 39 exemplares
Over F. Bordewijk : een inleiding en een chronologie, geschreven portretten, essays en meningen (1982) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
Aapverhalen : verhalen van Abdelkader Benali, Arnon Grunberg, Willem Frederik Hermans en andere Nederlandse schrijvers (2004) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Smutny kos. Opowieści niesamowite i osobliwe z prozy niderlandzkiej (1983) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Over Multatuli — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Nederland leest : de mooiste korte verhalen - Overijssel leest — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Hermans, Willem Frederik
Hermans, W.F. - Outros nomes
- Prudhomme s.j., Pater Anastase
Schrijver Dezes
Bijkaart, Age
Klondyke, Fjodor
Wissel, Sita van de
Cimatarra, Luis (mostrar todos 8)
Zomerplaag, B.J.O.
Boefjes O.F.M., Pater Frater B.I.M. - Data de nascimento
- 1921-09-01
- Data de falecimento
- 1995-04-27
- Localização do túmulo
- Gecremeerd
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Nederland
- País (no mapa)
- Nederland
- Local de nascimento
- Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
- Local de falecimento
- Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
- Locais de residência
- Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
Parijs, Île-de-France, France
Brussel, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, België - Educação
- Universiteit van Amsterdam (fysische geografie)
- Ocupações
- auteur
geoloog
lector in de fysische geografie
vertaler Duits-Nederlands - Prémios e menções honrosas
- P.C. Hooft-prijs (1971)
Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren (1977)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Willem Frederik Hermans was a Dutch author of poetry, novels, short stories, plays, as well as booklength studies, essays, and literary criticism. His most famous works are The House of Refuge (novella, 1952), The Darkroom of Damocles (novel, 1958), and Beyond Sleep (novel, 1966).
After World War II, Hermans tried to live off his writing exclusively, but as his country was just recovering from the Occupation, he had no opportunity to sustain himself. He published three important collections of short stories from 1948 to 1957, chief among them the novella The House of Refuge (1952), and in 1958 became lecturer in physical geography at Groningen University, a position he retained until his move to Paris, France, in 1973. The same year 1958 he broke to a wide audience with The Darkroom of Damocles. In the seventies Hermans played an important role in the unmasking of Friedrich Weinreb as a cheater of Jews in the war. Hermans refused to accept the P.C. Hooftprijs for 1971. In 1977 he received the Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren, the most prestigious literary award available for writers in the language, handed out every three years alternately by the reigning Dutch and Belgian monarchs to a writer of the other country, the Belgian king Baudouin handing the prize to Hermans. Hermans is considered one of the three most important authors in the Netherlands in the postwar period, along with Harry Mulisch and Gerard Reve.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 157
- Also by
- 22
- Membros
- 8,206
- Popularidade
- #2,948
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 148
- ISBN
- 329
- Línguas
- 13
- Marcado como favorito
- 61
The Publisher Says: In this dark, unnerving work of wartime fiction, W. F. Hermans exposes humanity’s essential savagery, barely concealed by its mores and morals. The year is 1944, and a Dutch partisan chances on an abandoned estate, where he decides to take refuge during a lull in the hostilities. The house seems untouched by the war, a kind of haven, its ornament and grandeur intact (not to mention its walls), clothes and sheets to spare, a kitchen stocked with food and drink. He settles in, and begins to consider himself the owner. When the Nazis recapture the village and come knocking, they similarly assume the house to be his; they assume, also, its spare rooms, which they outfit as barracks.
It is all and well until the true owner and his wife return to their estate. Horrified at the thought of being caught in his subterfuge, our protagonist finds himself drawn into further deceit—and swept up in the violence that ensues.
Civilization comes face-to-face with brutality, truth meets the duplicity that has upended and challenged its certainty—Hermans’ prose searches for an order to the chaos and nihilism of war and life. What he cannot find is as telling as what he uncovers.
I RECEIVED A DRC FROM THE PUBLISHER VIA EDELWEISS+. THANK YOU.
My Review: Novellas are, by definition, brief and gestural as opposed to the novel in its deeper dives, its wider emotional landscape. These general observations are, of course, not true of every novel or novella. They serve to define nothing but an expectation of the reasonably experienced reader when picking up one or the other.
I went into this read, then, expecting to get a glancing blow to my interest in the topic of what the Second World War was like for those who lived it, who were involved in the conflict and not observing events from afar. That was an expectation met...but exceeded, at least as the read settled into my brain. The prose, as translated, was not showy or terribly Writerly; the story itself was simple enough, really more suited to a short story than a novella; but as I sat stunned after finishing the read, I realized why the author chose this length of telling for a story this uncomplicated.
Without the novella’s-worth of buildup, the ending would feel artificial and out of proportion to the story itself. As it is, the ending is a shocker. It arrives without fanfare and smacks the complacent, even slightly bored, reader in their readerly chops. At the end of a trip through one devious survivor’s opportunistic manipulations of everyone around him, all in service of maximizing his immediate personal comfort, the situation he has created from his selfish, self-serving and utterly believable actions comes to a loud, permanent conclusion.
The issue I had been nursing against this overgrown short story exploded in the events of the ending. There is a reason for the length the author chose to tell his simple tale. I was not ready for the impact of the ending, which to be clear would always have been powerful. The novella before it, however, was exactly right to create its seismic shifting of my emotional response. An entire novel with this ending would, honestly, have vitiated its power to stun; a short story, even a long one, would make the ending feel artificial and tacked on.
This read is an excellent example of what a novella can do best, when used to best advantage: satisfy the reader’s hunger for a powerful emotional experience in a one-sitting package. So why only four stars? In the end, the manner of telling the story, the simple unfussy writing, works against the needed investment in the story being told. It gets to the stage of thinking, "Really? is this IT?" before the truly impactful payoff occurs. That I soldiered on, finishing the read, was not assured by the manner of storytelling the author used. At times I was ready to jump ship just to be done with this really dislikable man, this solipsistic selfish creep. I am glad that I persevered, but also a little surprised that I did with the truly staggering number of reads I already have lined up.
So, to all who start this read, I say: Do stick it out for the whole distance. It *is* worth your time. But because I feel the need to say that, I can only in honesty rate it four of five stars.… (mais)