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Alles
is ijdelheid (La poursuite
du vent) (1976)
Claire
Goll (Nürnberg
29/10/1890 - Parijs 30/5/1977)
Inleiding: Herman 5/2/1988
Ik heb grote mannen en zelfs genieën gekend: Joyce, Malreaux, Saint-John
Perse, Einstein, Henry Miller, Picasso, Chagall, Majakovski, Rainer Maria Rilke,
Henry Montherland, Cocteau, Dali, Jung, Antonin Artaud, Lehmbruck, Brancusi...
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A
Classical Education
(1985)
Richard
Cobb (Frinton-on-sea
1917 - 1996)
Inleiding: Kees 25/3/1988
I was waiting at the barrier at the far right end of the Gare Saint-Lazare, near
the post office and the exit leading down to the level of the rue du Havre.
58
Moeder
en Zoon (1980)
Gerard
Reve (Amsterdam
14/12/1923)
Inleiding: Gijsbert 20/5/1988
"Hoe ben jij, Gerard Reve, een man met toch een behoorlijke dosis ontwikkeling,
intelligentie en gezond verstand, ooit in de Rooms-Katholieke Kerk terechtgekomen
en er zelfs lid van geworden?"
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Het
Contraleven (The Counterlife) (1986)
Philip
Roth (Newark,
New Jersey 19/3/1933)
Inleiding: Henk 9/9/1988
Ever since the family doctor, during aroutine checkup, discovered an abnormality
on his EKG and he went in overnight for the coronary cathererization that revealed
the dimensions of the desease, Henry's condition had been successfully treated with
drugs...
60
Coming
up for air (1939)
George
Orwell (Mothari,
India 25/6/1903 - Londen 21/1/1950)
Inleiding: Loek 28/10/1988
She's one of those people who get their main kick in life out of foreseeing disasters.
Only petty disasters, of course.
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