Third of the Seasonal quartet, set in a Brexit-era Britain of detention centres and shrinking hope. A grieving screenwriter, a worn-down detention-centre guard and a mysterious girl on a train are drawn together, with Katherine Mansfield and Rainer Maria Rilke threaded through the story. (Source PDF is the Dutch translation, Lente.)
Books mentioned in Spring (11)
Pericles, Prince of Tyre by William Shakespeare: Epigraph: 'Een dorre tak ... De leuze: In hac spe vivo', William Shakespeare (epigraph); Pericles also named in dialogue
Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke: Epigraph from Rilke (citations list Duineser Elegien) (epigraph); also 'elegieen van wijlen Rilke' in text
Hard Times by Charles Dickens: “'Na afloop maken ze grappen over Hard Times'; the 'factory of time' passage is attributed to Charles Dickens”
The Seven Poor Travellers by Charles Dickens: “'dubbele naam komt uit een oud verhaal van Charles Dickens ... Het verhaal van Richard Doubledick' (story is a chapter of this work)”
Macbeth by William Shakespeare: “'veel lawaai, dat niets betekent. Zinnetje van school. William Shakespeare' then the plot of trees marching on a usurper king”
Germinal by Émile Zola: “'Germinal ... waarom Zola zijn roman over hopeloze hoop die revolutionaire titel gaf'”
The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence: “'D H Lawrence in het Duits, de roman De regenboog' read by Rilke”