Questions tagged [the-assault]
Questions about the 1982 novel 'De aanslag' ('The Assault') by the Dutch author Harry Mulisch. Use this tag with the [harry-mulisch] and [dutch-language] tags.
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Relevance of Pliny the Younger quote in The Assault (De aanslag) by Harry Mulisch?
Harry Mulisch prefaces his novel De aanslag (The Assault) with a quote from C. Plinius Caecilius Secundus, i.e. Pliny the Younger:
Overal was het al dag, maar hier was het nacht, neen, meer dan ...
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Did Harry Mulisch plagiarise other works in his novel The Assault / De aanslag?
In 1986, Harry Mulisch's 1982 novel De aanslag / The Assault was turned in to a film directed by Fons Rademakers. Screenwriter Gerard Soeteman said about the novel:
Ik heb het boek dan ook alleen ...
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