De meester van de neerdaling
by Hella S. Haasse
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Een ongetrouwde vrouw neemt een tijdje de zorg voor haar neefje op zich. Ze ontdekt dat hij onder invloed van een kwade macht is. Door haar bemoeienissen valt er een dode en zij wordt veroordeeld. Na haar straf zorgt ze jaren voor een verstandelijk gehandicapte Markiezin in Venetië die wordt verkracht en een kind krijgt. Ook dit kind lijkt sterk onder invloed van Het Kwaad. De vrouw wordt ziek en wordt door de zoon ongeveer het huis uitgezet. De neef en zijn vrouw gaan naar Venetië om de koffer van hun tante op te halen. Het wordt een avontuur dat voor de vrouw luguber lijkt af te lopen.
Sep 20, 2008Dutch
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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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- 1973
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 839.31 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures Other Germanic literatures Netherlandish literatures Dutch
- LCC
- PT5838 .H45 .M43 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures Dutch literature Individual authors or works 1800-1960
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