The NRC is late with the Heere Heeresma review, I found several in other newspapers when researching for the portrait. I was struck by how mixed those reviews were, so I could have expected Elsbeth Etty to add to the confusion. But I was still surprised to find her ecstatic about the book: "Heeresma's version of the many K-characters known to literature since Kafka, is an outstanding achievement." (If anybody out there has better translating skills: "Heeresma levert met deze variant op de vele K-figuren die de literatuur sinds Kafka kent, een bijzondere prestatie.) And now the for the contrast. Arie Storm in Het Parool: "This novel, Heeresma's first in years, is not surrealist, but crazy and the idea is not original, but already chewed up completely by others. And more in particular, it is all so childish." I could cite from more reviews, but I have already thrown them in my grey bin, and my grey bin is in my back yard, and everything in it is frozen stiff. The Maarten't Hart article on the left is available on the NRC website.
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