To dynamic personalities, the present is a ship that drives its bow through the rough seas of the future. “The way we word it, it's as if our backs were turned to the past as we look toward the futre and that is, in fact, how we actually think of it: the future in front, the past behind. The only thing is, we mustn't become too much like them, mustn't destroy ourselves altogether, otherwise they'll have won in the end.” But they'll lose in the end, because they have no light in them.
Not them they can simply remain themselves, that's why they're so strong. We first have to do away with something inside ourselves before we can do away with them. But they don't have that problem they can do away with us without any qualms. We've got to become a little bit like them in order to fight them so we become a little bit unlike ourselves. For them everything is very simple, but for us it's more complicated. We hate hate itself, and for this reason our hate is better than theirs.īut that's why it's more difficult for us. How is that possible? It's because we hate them in the name of the light, I guess, whereas they hate only in the name of darkness. And yet we've got to hate Fascists, and that's considered perfectly all right. But the past keeps breaking through, in relentless memories and in chance encounters with the other actors in the drama, until Anton finally learns what really happened that night in 1945, and why.“Hate is the darkness, that's no good. Determined not to forget, he opts for a carefully normal existence�a prudent marriage, a successful career, and colorless passivity. The Assault traces the complex repercussions of this nightmarish event on Anton's life. The Germans retaliate by slaughtering an innocent family: only the youngest son, twelve-year-old Anton, survives. A Nazi collaborator, infamous for his cruelty, is assassinated as he rides on his bicycle.
It is the winter of 1945, the last dark days of the ware in occupied Holland. The Assault has been translated and published to great critical acclaim throughout Europe and in the United States. The Assault ( De aanslag ) Harry Mulisch | Claire Nicolas White € 16.99 This item arrived at our Den Haag store within the past 8 weeks If ordered before 12:00h, this title will be in our store within 24 hours.Ī novel that probes moral devastation following a Nazi retaliation in a Dutch town.
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