
Laila Lalami makes history come to life for us in this utterly compelling insider’s account of a 1527 conquistador expedition.
January 17th, 2016 | by Maarten | published in Engelse literatuur, English texts, FOCUS, geschiedenis | Comments Off on The Moor’s Account
December 29th, 2015 | by Maarten | published in Engelse literatuur, English texts, FOCUS | Comments Off on The Uncommon Reader
December 6th, 2015 | by Maarten | published in Engelse literatuur, FOCUS | Comments Off on The Finkler Question
September 27th, 2014 | by Janantoon | published in Engelse literatuur, English texts, FOCUS | Comments Off on Vladimir Nabokov and Sebastian Knight
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight was Nabokov’s first novel in English. He wrote it in Paris, in late 1938 and early 1939, while in the meantime making efforts towards moving to an English-speaking country. At that stage he thought of moving to England, which may in some part account for the setting of Sebastian […]
August 6th, 2014 | by Janantoon | published in Engelse literatuur, FOCUS | Comments Off on Nadine Gordimer blijven lezen
Onlangs overleed de Zuid-Afrikaanse schrijfster Nadine Gordimer. Een schrijver kan je best herdenken door zijn of haar werk te lezen. En dat heb ik gedaan met haar roman The House Gun. De blurb van de uitgever insinueert de spanning van een detectiveroman: A house gun — kept like a house cat: a fact of ordinary […]
July 15th, 2014 | by Janantoon | published in Engelse literatuur, FOCUS | Comments Off on Nadine Gordimer overleden
Nadine Gordimer overleed op 13 juli 2014, negentig jaar oud. In 1991 kreeg ze de Nobelprijs, vooral voor haar grote en controversiële romans uit de jaren 70 en 80, waaronder The Conservationist. De jury schreef over haar werk: Gordimer writes with intense immediacy about the extremely complicated personal and social relationships in her environment. At […]
April 27th, 2014 | by Maarten | published in boeken van belang, Engelse literatuur, English texts, FOCUS | Comments Off on Why I want you to read John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath
April 11th, 2014 | by Janantoon | published in Engelse literatuur, English texts, FOCUS | Comments Off on John Carey — the pleasure of reading
April 10th, 2014 | by Maarten | published in Engelse literatuur, English texts, FOCUS | Comments Off on Our Kind of Traitor