Maria Dermoût Bücher
Helena Dermoût hat sich mit ihrem literarischen Schaffen einen Namen gemacht, das sich mit der Komplexität der menschlichen Psyche und zwischenmenschlicher Beziehungen auseinandersetzte. Ihr Schreiben zeichnet sich durch eine poetische Sprache und tiefe Einblicke in Themen wie Erinnerung, Verlust und die Suche nach Identität aus. Dermoût schuf meisterhaft atmosphärische Szenen und Charaktere, die bei den Lesern lange nachklingen. Ihre einzigartige Stimme und ihre scharfsinnige Auseinandersetzung mit der menschlichen Verfassung machen sie zu einer unvergesslichen literarischen Figur.
In Wild , Cheryl Strayed writes of The Ten Thousand Things : "Each of Dermoût’s sentences came at me like a soft knowing dagger, depicting a far-off land that felt to me like the blood of all the places I used to love.” And it's true, The Ten Thousand Things is at once novel of shimmering strangeness—and familiarity. It is the story of Felicia, who returns with her baby son from Holland to the Spice Islands of Indonesia, to the house and garden that were her birthplace, over which her powerful grandmother still presides. There Felicia finds herself wedded to an uncanny and dangerous world, full of mystery and violence, where objects tell tales, the dead come and go, and the past is as potent as the present. First published in Holland in 1955, Maria Dermoût's novel was immediately recognized as a magical work, like nothing else Dutch—or European—literature had seen before. The Ten Thousand Things is an entranced vision of a far-off place that is as convincingly real and intimate as it is exotic, a book that is at once a lament and an ecstatic ode to nature and life.
Yesterday, a Novel
- 134 Seiten
- 5 Lesestunden