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High Road to Culture in Flanders and the Netherlands
A.F.Th. van der Heijden is an ambitious writer. He is working on two monumental cycles simultaneously. Nevertheless his body of work exhibits remarkable coherence. Drawing on autobiographical sources there is also an aestheticizing drive. ...
Thierry Baudet’s conservative ideas fly in the face of the enlightenment values that have long been dominant. This opposition is a defining moment for our modern culture.
In the last few decades Mulisch has been the symbol of literature, the perfect embodiment of the writer. The author underlines in this essay the cohesion of Mulisch's oeuvre, despite the considerable – mainly stylistic – differences to be f...
