Twee vrouwen harry mulisch biography

Two Women by Harry Mulisch. Our Assessment: B : a well-told little novella of love, desire, and memory. Please note that these ratings solely represent the complete review 's biased interpretation and subjective opinion of the actual reviews and do not claim to accurately reflect or represent the views of the reviewers.

Twee vrouwen (; Two Women; filmed ) explored love between two women.

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Harry Mulisch's short novella is narrated by Laura, travelling from Amsterdam to Nice after having received the news that her mother has died. The story switches back and forth between the present, as she drives through France, and memories of the recent past. Divorced from Alfred, Laura works at a museum. Her ailing widowed mother lives in comfortable retirement in Nice, where Laura goes to visit her occasionally.

They are not especially close, but Laura is still tied to her.

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Laura's uneventful life is changed in a sudden moment of daring. Walking in Amsterdam Laura sees a woman and picks her up. Though she has never slept with another woman she knows they are meant to be together -- and so it seems they are. Sylvia -- the other woman -- agrees, and almost immediately moves in with Laura. The lesbian love affair is decorously told.

Laura's vague friends disapprove, but she simply no longer sees them.