Uit het leven van een hond

Henk is in his fifties, lives alone, carries too much weight and works as a nurse. He loves his books as if they were personal friends and reads Nietzsche, though philosophy mostly escapes him. The book follows him through a single day: he dozes, wakes, becomes slightly infatuated, has to show up at a family gathering and finds out that his dog is sick. Nothing momentous happens, but the narrator reads Henk's thoughts closely and comments on the way Henk reads his own life, a life of a creature who sees himself as no more than living matter without a purpose.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

156 pages in the original

First published

2019 by Van Oorschot

Author's age

58 when first published

ISBN

9789028290082 (original)

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