Harry Mulisch (1927-2010)
“I never make things up, I just remember things that never happened.”
I have always admired this sentence by the great Dutch writer — novels, journalism, poetry, essays — who died this past Saturday. Details of his life here, and his Dutch website here. A number of his books translated into English are available. He is also the writer who defined himself by saying “I am World War II” — alluding to his parents, the father an Austrian army officer who collaborated with the Nazis during WWII in Holland, which saved his wife, a Jew, and their son during the Nazi period.
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“Todesguge/Deathfugue”
“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)”
“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello”
“Conversations in the Pyrenees”
“A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly.” Edited by Pierre Joris & Peter Cockelbergh
“An American Suite” (Poems) —Inpatient Press
“Arabia (not so) Deserta” : Essays on Maghrebi & Mashreqi Writing & Culture
“Barzakh” (Poems 2000-2012)
“Fox-trails, -tales & -trots”
“The Agony of I.B.” — A play. Editions PHI & TNL 2016
“The Book of U / Le livre des cormorans”
“Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry of Paul Celan”
“Paul Celan, Microliths They Are, Little Stones”
“Paul Celan: Breathturn into Timestead-The Collected Later Poetry.” Translated & with commentary by Pierre Joris. Farrar, Straus & Giroux
An amazing quote. I have copied and filed and will send it out. Of course , I will say I made it up myself !
Nice Obit in The National Post today, 11/03/10 AL7. Just Google National Post and type in his name.