Crew cut - Kort Amerikaans

Crew cut - Kort Amerikaans

Jan Wolkers debut novel from 1962 is situated during the last two years of the Second World War.

An eighteen-year-old boy has been summoned to work for the Germans. When he refuses, he has to go into hiding in an art academy in Leiden. He is fighting against his fears and his erotic obsessions. His girlfriend does not yet want to have sex with him, but a jewish girl that is also hiding in the academy is less reserved. Then a third woman enters the stage: a torso of the goddess Venus, made out of plaster, which is used as a model by the artists.

Crew Cut has been translated in Swedish, and in 2004 a comic adaption has been published as well.

Author

Holland's most illustrious writer, modern classics

Author, Sculptor and One of the 'Great Four' writers of Dutch literature.

In over forty years Jan Wolkers (1925-2007) wrote a great number of novels, stories and essays. He also worked as painter and a sculptor. The Auschwitz Monument in Wertheimpark in Amsterdam is one of his works.

With his novels and stories he liberated himself and his readers from religion and the stifling and oppressive atmosphere of post war Holland. Turks fruit (Turkish Delight), 1969, also represented the sexual revolution of the sixties. Among the Protestant community his work aroused much resistance, but his success was not to be stopped.

With works like Kort Amerikaans (Crew Cut), Turks fruit (Turkish Delight), Terug naar Oegstgeest(Return to Oegstgeest) and De walgvogel (The Dodo) Jan Wolkers belongs to the most widely translated Dutch authors.

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