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Title: Eva's overgave
Subtitle: Een alternatieve lezing van Carry van Bruggens roman Eva
Author(s): POLS, Gijsbert
Journal: Spiegel der Letteren
Volume: 50    Issue: 3   Date: 2008   
Pages: 297-322
DOI: 10.2143/SDL.50.3.2033476

Abstract :
Within Dutch literary studies, Carry van Bruggen endmost novel Eva is commonly considered to be a linear coming-of-age novel and a literary adaptation of Van Bruggen’s philosophical ideas. This interpretation can be attributed to the novel’s reception by the prominent Dutch critic Menno ter Braak. This article presents an alternative to this view. Based on narratological arguments, an alternative approach is developed which does not focus on the emerging of a critical individual, but on the articulation of an experience of unity.

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