'I am the Second World War' From: Jerusalem Post | Date: July 27, 2007| Author: BEN NAPARSTEK | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Jerusalem Post

07-27-2007

Headline: 'I am the Second World War'
Byline: BEN NAPARSTEK
Edition; Up Front
Section: Books
Page: 24

Friday, July 27, 2007 -- Harry Mulisch, Holland's leading post-war writer, turns 80 on Sunday. The event is cause for nationwide celebration in Holland, where Mulisch is looked to as a national conscience of a society troubled by its history of Nazi occupation. But Mulisch says that he does not feel Dutch. "I was born i...

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