Volume 32, Number 19 · December 5, 1985
Survivor
By Stephen Spender
The Assault
by Harry Mulisch, translated by Claire Nicolas White
Pantheon, 185 pp., $13.95
The note about the author printed on the last page of this novel throws much light on it: 'Harry Mulisch…Holland's most important postwar writer…[was] born in 1927 in Haarlem to a Jewish mother whose family died in the concentration camps, and an Austrian father who was jailed after the war for collaborating with the Nazis.' And on the book jacket, Mulisch adds, 'It isn't so much that I went through the Second World War; I am the Second World War.'
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