Fenrir een lang weekend in de Ardennen

by Hella S. Haasse

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Fenrir. Een lang weekend in de Ardennen suggests that Hella S. Haasse imagined several trends long before they happened. Central to the story is the rise of neo-fascist, extremist groups, and their cult-like gathering. This story is intertwined with the return of the wolf to the ecosystem of northwest Europe.
Leg na hoofdstuk een het boek niet weg, in het tweede wordt het indringend. Er zijn verschillende zoektochten.
Wat weet je van het verleden en heden van je familie? Kunnen wolven worden gedomesticeerd? Haasse heeft veel weggelaten waar (zodat) je als lezer verbanden moet leggen en betekenis geven. De personages spreken niet alles uit, ik-personages moeten ook zoeken. Wie zijn de echte wolven?
Een thema uit de mythologie gebruikt voor WO II en het heden.

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Hella Haasse was born in Batavia, the capital of what was then Dutch East India, now independent Indonesia. It is thus understandable why her first novel, Oeroeg (1948), describes the relationship between a Dutch and an Indonesian youth. As the two young men grow up, they gradually become conscious of their ethnic and cultural differences and, in show more spite of their efforts, nature appears to have destined them to become estranged from each other. Haasse's greatest impact on the Dutch literary scene occurred when her historical novel Het woud der verwachting (In a Dark Wood Wandering) (1948) was published. It was translated into English in 1989. This novel became a classic in its own time. In it the author describes the ever-increasing loneliness of the fifteenth-century Romantic poet--prince Charles d'Orleans, pretender to the crown of France, who wrote most of his poems in British and French prisons. In addition to giving a moving report of the life of a person destined to end his life in utter isolation, Hella Haasse succeeds in presenting her main character in a way which allows the reader to identify with him. Charles's life is interwoven with the lives of all the other people he meets. Haasse's talent for description and narration and her skill with flashbacks allow her to manage the novel's many characters, constructing a microcosm in which each reader feels "at home' and meets people with whom he or she can identify. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Canonical title*
Fenrir
Original title
Fenrir. Een lang weekend in de Ardennen
Original publication date
2000
Important places*
Ardennen, Wallonië, België
First words*
Matthias Crone was op 25 september naar het concert gegaan, omdat hij in de krant gelezen had dat de pianiste wolven in haar achtertuin hield.
Last words*
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Was het een slag in de lucht, het laten vallen van een druppel op een gloeiende plaat, of toch misschien de tik die een niet meer te stuiten ontwikkeling op gang bracht en zo een wezenlijke samenhang kon onthullen?
Original language
Nederlands
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General Fiction, Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS
839.31364Literature & rhetoricGerman & related literaturesOther Germanic literaturesNetherlandish literaturesDutchDutch fiction20th Century1945-1999
LCC
PT5838 .H45 .F46Language and LiteratureGerman, Dutch and Scandinavian literaturesDutch literatureIndividual authors or works1800-1960

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