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By: MJM,
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By: John Mark Boling,
on 9/6/2007
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By: John Mark Boling,
on 6/26/2007
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Judge for yourself what kind of guy W. F. Hermans was: here's some youtube footage of him being interviewed a few different places. I don't speak Dutch, but he seems to be able to bring the funny as well as the melancholy. He seems animated and argumentative, in the words of Pye, like all great authors. (Image by Dejan Petrovic)
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By: MJM,
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By: John Mark Boling,
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There's a great Q&A up at Critical Mass with Steve Wasserman, who penned this great article about the state of book reviews. In it he has some praise for Beyond Sleep:
Q: Since you've been outside the book review editing job, how has your reading changed? Have you discovered anyone new (outside your client list of course) that you think readers should know about?
A: Working another station in the kitchen hasn't changed my promiscuous reading habits. I can recommend the marvelous novel, "Beyond Sleep," by the remarkable late Dutch writer Willem Frederik Hermans, just published by Overlook Press.
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By: John Mark Boling,
on 6/26/2007
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The astute and thoughtful Michael Pye takes a look at two Willem Frederik Hermans' novels recently translated into English by Ina Rilke: Beyond Sleep, which the Overlook Press has just released in the United States and The Darkroom of Damocles, which we will release next year.
"Something went wrong between the world and WF Hermans and, to be honest, it was mostly Hermans's fault. He was a prickly, impossible, fussing kind of man, never happy with translations of his books, forever suspecting publishers of hoarding copies out of spite; a proper author, in other words. He couldn't stand the thought of failing outside his native Holland, some people say, because it would make all his Dutch enemies so happy.
Judge for yourself what kind of guy W. F. Hermans was: here's some youtube footage of him being interviewed a few different places. I don't speak Dutch, but he seems to be able to bring the funny as well as the melancholy. He seems animated and argumentative, in the words of Pye, like all great authors. (Image by Dejan Petrovic)
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