Duel is not a ‘gimmick’

In the late 1980s, Joost Zwagerman’s (1963) debut novel Gimmick[1] caused a sensation in press and public as a novel that defined the Zeitgeist and spoke for a generation, the postmodern generation.  Recently he wrote Duel[2]  (2010), a shorter novel published as the traditional gift of the annual week-of-books, which can be considered as a …

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