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Español“The War does not Exist”. (Inner) Conflict in The House of Refuge by Willem Frederik Hermans
Abstract When the narrator of Willem Frederik Hermans’ novella discovers The House of Refuge, he says: “The war does not exist (Hermans, 1952, 7)”. The following analysis demonstrates that in The House of Refuge, conflict does exist on several inter-related levels. On the one hand, there is the outer conflict... Read More