The Resource An untouched house, Willem Frederik Hermans ; with an afterword by Cees Nooteboom ; translated from the Dutch by David Colmer
An untouched house, Willem Frederik Hermans ; with an afterword by Cees Nooteboom ; translated from the Dutch by David Colmer
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The item An untouched house, Willem Frederik Hermans ; with an afterword by Cees Nooteboom ; translated from the Dutch by David Colmer represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Hamilton-Wenham Public Library.
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- Summary
- "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" --
- Language
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- eng
- dut
- eng
- Edition
- First Archipelago Books edition.
- Extent
- 104 pages
- Note
- "Originally published as Het behouden huis by De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam, 1951" -- Title page verso
- Isbn
- 9781939810069
- Label
- An untouched house
- Title
- An untouched house
- Statement of responsibility
- Willem Frederik Hermans ; with an afterword by Cees Nooteboom ; translated from the Dutch by David Colmer
- Language
-
- eng
- dut
- eng
- Summary
- "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" --
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1921-1995
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Hermans, Willem Frederik
- Index
- no index present
- Language note
- Translated from the Dutch
- LC call number
- PT5844.H526
- LC item number
- B4813 2018
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
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- 1933-
- 1960-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Nooteboom, Cees
- Colmer, David
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Dwellings
- World War, 1939-1945
- Label
- An untouched house, Willem Frederik Hermans ; with an afterword by Cees Nooteboom ; translated from the Dutch by David Colmer
- Note
- "Originally published as Het behouden huis by De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam, 1951" -- Title page verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1019620630
- Dimensions
- 16 cm
- Edition
- First Archipelago Books edition.
- Extent
- 104 pages
- Isbn
- 9781939810069
- Lccn
- 2018037412
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1019620630
- Label
- An untouched house, Willem Frederik Hermans ; with an afterword by Cees Nooteboom ; translated from the Dutch by David Colmer
- Note
- "Originally published as Het behouden huis by De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam, 1951" -- Title page verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1019620630
- Dimensions
- 16 cm
- Edition
- First Archipelago Books edition.
- Extent
- 104 pages
- Isbn
- 9781939810069
- Lccn
- 2018037412
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1019620630
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