Word: vanderveenan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Twig (1961), still Hawkes's best novel, had the suspenseful, carefully interwoven plot of a detective story rendered in turbulent, opaque prose. The turbulence is still there, but plot has all but disappeared from Hawkes's novels. The Traveller of his new work is a middle-aged Dutchman, Allert Vanderveenan, who is waiting, alone, for his wife to leave him. This is clear by page two. What remains is to unfold the narrator's involuted emotional life with a disquieting force that could not have been imagined by the inventor of the catch phrase, "psychological novel...
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