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| Original Title: | De ontdekking van de hemel |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Publieksprijs voor het Nederlandse Boek Nominee (2002), AKO / ECI Literatuurprijs Nominee (1993), Multatuliprijs (1993), Prix Jean-Monnet de littérature européenne du département de Charente (1999), Mekka-prijs (1993) |
Harry Mulisch
Paperback | Pages: 730 pages Rating: 4.17 | 11320 Users | 520 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Discovery of Heaven |
| Author | : | Harry Mulisch |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 730 pages |
| Published | : | February 26th 1998 by Penguin Books (first published 1992) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Literature. European Literature. Dutch Literature |
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The Discovery of Heaven begins with the meeting of Onno and Max, two complicated individuals whom fate has mysteriously and magically brought together, They share responsibility for the birth of a remarkable and radiant boy who embarks on a mandated quest that takes the reader all over Europe and to the land where all such quests begin and end. Abounding in philosophical, psychological and theological inquiries - yet laced with humour that is as infectious as it is wilful - The Discovery of Heaven convinces us that it just might be possible to bring order into the chaos of the world through a story.Rating Out Of Books The Discovery of Heaven
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This is the english version of my review:Onno, an amateur philologist obsessed by the Phaistos Disk, comes from one of the Netherland's leading political families. Max, a womanising radio astronomer, is the son of a collaborator who was executed after the Second World War. An unlikely pair brought together by chance or angelic intervention they immediately strike up a firm friendship. When Max meets Ada, a cellist, she is not just one of his usual girlfriends, but it is Onno who ends upWhat stayed with me over the years after reading this brick of a novel on just about every philosophical question any man has ever asked himself (intentionally choosing gender here, by the way), was a vague envy of the angels observing humankind while it is struggling in the dark. They KNOW, while we have to guess. What a disadvantage that gives us. Do they exist? No clue for humanity, so all the power remains with those who know they exist. It struck me that if I were a believer in Christian
A poll of Dutch readers taken in 2007 resulted in this being selected as "the greatest Dutch-language novel ever." I can see why. It is a brilliant and engaging work. The frame is,to say the least, cosmic in scope. A group of divine beings decide to send a new "spark" into mortality on a special mission. The problem, the divines feel, is that the emergence of the scientific method and the resulting explosion in human knowledge actually threatens their superiority. Moreover, there is so much
REVIEW FROM 2005Long and extremely complex novel very hard to categorise and incredibly wide-ranging and ambitious.Womanising astronomer Max Delius (son of a Nazi collaborator who had his Jewish wife Maxs mother killed: note this is almost autobiographical as Mulisch had a Jewish maternal family killed in camps and a collaborator father) meets by chance with absent-minded linguist Onno Quist (son of an ex-Prime Minister) and the two strike up a deep almost exclusive friendship, which they
What stayed with me over the years after reading this brick of a novel on just about every philosophical question any man has ever asked himself (intentionally choosing gender here, by the way), was a vague envy of the angels observing humankind while it is struggling in the dark. They KNOW, while we have to guess. What a disadvantage that gives us. Do they exist? No clue for humanity, so all the power remains with those who know they exist. It struck me that if I were a believer in Christian
Ok, so I was incredibly excited to read this book. It's one of those books I've put off for a couple of years to 'savour' the excitement. I began reading and was immediately disappointed with the contrived and forcefully formal dialectic and narrative in both the prologue between two overtly sexist angels and chapter one. I decided to try and round off these two factors (formality and sexism) as perhaps character traits which would blend into a narrative and become either criticised or mocked.
The Discovery of Heaven is a book which will shake up your brain, even after reading you feel like youve learnt a dozen things, unfortunately it makes it more difficult to actually summarise it as the plot is out there.Superficially two angels shape the destiny of two brainy individuals (max is an Astronomer and Onno is a linguist) and together they both father (yes a woman has sex with both of them) a child who has been chosen to return the ten commandments back to heaven as the human race has
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