Return to Oestgeest - Terug naar Oegstgeest
RETURN TO OEGSTGEEST is an autobiographical novel about the author's youth in Oegstgeest.
Wolkers tries to recollect the world of his childhood in the current of the nineteen sixtees. Memories of his calvinistic parents and the death of his brother are accompanied by stories of his nascent sexuality.
Return to Oegstgeest has been translated into English, French, Hungarian, Polish, Swedish and Turkish.
Author
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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