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The House on the Canal; Alienation

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Description:Two remarkable classics of Dutch literature make up this volume in the Bibliotheca Neerlandica series, both novels of atmosphere, each in its own way a sustained tour de force. In The House on the Canal, the curator of a museum takes the reader on a tour of the shuttered rooms, telling the story of the family who partly from spite, partly from pride, bequeathed the house now known as the Willet-Holthuysen Museum to the city of Amsterdam. It is with a disquieting skill that Coenen evokes the ghosts of the despotic Diefenbach and his timid wife, tells of the tormented hermaphrodite recluse who succeeded him as head of the family and of her marriage to the fortune-hunting Le Roy. The account of Louise's death in the tawdry palace after that tragic marriage ended is one of such cold horror that it will remain with the reader long after he has read this book.Willem Merten in Van Oudshoorn's masterpiece, Alienation, is a man on the brink of mental breakdown. Oppressed by sexual guilt he embezzles at work, precipitates quarrels with his barmaid girlfriend, circles his small world of pub, lodgings, and office with an ever-loosening hold on reality until at last, he comes face to face with his own doom. Charting every nuance of emotion, word by measured word and with terrifying impact Van Oudshoorn builds up the crazy picture of life seen through the distorting mirror of insanity.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The House on the Canal; Alienation. To get started finding The House on the Canal; Alienation, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 220

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Sythoff Leyden/Heinemann London; London House & Maxwell New York

Release: 1965

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Description: Two remarkable classics of Dutch literature make up this volume in the Bibliotheca Neerlandica series, both novels of atmosphere, each in its own way a sustained tour de force. In The House on the Canal, the curator of a museum takes the reader on a tour of the shuttered rooms, telling the story of the family who partly from spite, partly from pride, bequeathed the house now known as the Willet-Holthuysen Museum to the city of Amsterdam. It is with a disquieting skill that Coenen evokes the ghosts of the despotic Diefenbach and his timid wife, tells of the tormented hermaphrodite recluse who succeeded him as head of the family and of her marriage to the fortune-hunting Le Roy. The account of Louise's death in the tawdry palace after that tragic marriage ended is one of such cold horror that it will remain with the reader long after he has read this book.Willem Merten in Van Oudshoorn's masterpiece, Alienation, is a man on the brink of mental breakdown. Oppressed by sexual guilt he embezzles at work, precipitates quarrels with his barmaid girlfriend, circles his small world of pub, lodgings, and office with an ever-loosening hold on reality until at last, he comes face to face with his own doom. Charting every nuance of emotion, word by measured word and with terrifying impact Van Oudshoorn builds up the crazy picture of life seen through the distorting mirror of insanity.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The House on the Canal; Alienation. To get started finding The House on the Canal; Alienation, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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