11 Tegengif (At Swim-Two-Birds) (1939)
Flann O’Brien (Strabane 5/10/1911 – Dublin 1/4/1966)
Inleiding: Bas 23/1/1981
One Beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimiliar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred times as many endings.
12 Het Martyrium (Die Blendung) (1935)
Elias Canetti (Rustschuk, Bulgarije 25/7/1905 – Zürich 14/8/1994)
Inleiding: Wouter 12/5/1981
Ich lese jede Seite ein dutzendmal, sonst hat man nichts davon.
13 Ulysses (1922)
James Joyce (Dublin 2/2/1882 – Zürich 13/1/1941)
Inleiding: Kees & Gijsbert 2/7/81 & 17/9/1981
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressing gown, ungirdled, was sustained gently-behind him by the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned: Introibo ad altare Dei.
14 Sons and Lovers (1913)
David H. Lawrence (Eastwood, Nottinghamshire 11/9/1885 – Vence, Provence 2/3/1930)
Inleiding: Loek 12/11/1981
“THE BOTTOMS” succeeded to “Hell Row”. Hell Row was a block of thatched, bulging cottages that stood by the brookside on Greenhill Lane. There lived the colliers who worked in the little gin-pits two fields away.