Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Gods Geuzen by Jan de Hartog The Low Countries. Jaargang 11. The Dutch novelist and playwright Jan de Hartog, who died in Houston, Texas, in September 2002, was born in Haarlem in 1914, the son of a professor of Calvinist theology and a Quaker mother. A born rebel, he ran away to sea at the age of ten. In the thirties he held a variety of odd jobs in Amsterdam, while publishing detective stories (under the pen name F.R. Eckmar) and plays. Then in October 1940, shortly after the Germans had occupied the Netherlands, he published what was to become his greatest success: the novel Hollands Glorie (1940), a tale of Dutch derring-do on the high seas. Buying this novel with its defiant title quickly became an act of symbolic resistance, and turned it into one of the great bestsellers of twentieth-century Dutch. literature. When 300,000 copies had been sold, De Hartog had to go into hiding because he refused to join the Kultuurkamer, the Nazi-led writers' guild. In 1943 he managed to escape from occupied Holland via France and Switzerland to Spain and freedom in England. The story of this dangerous journey went untold until 1999, when he published The Escape (De Vlucht), written with the help of his wife Marjorie. Hollands Glorie is the story of Captain Jan Wandelaar and his ocean-going tug and how they transported the cranes, dredgers, hoppers, docks and sluice gates which the Dutch used to build harbours and dams all over the world, in Argentina and the Falklands, in the Middle East and the Dutch East Indies. The novel, written in a vigorous and salty, non-literary style, follows Jan Wandelaar's career from common sailor to captain of his own ship and his epic struggle with the arch-capitalist Kwel, who exploits and abuses the sailors who work for him. Like the socialist playwright Herman Heijermans in his play The Good Hope (Op hoop van zegen, 1900), De Hartog's novel paints a sharply critical portrait of the class divide in pre-war Dutch society, pitting honest Dutch sailors against the dirty tricks of the greedy company owners. In the end Wandelaar wins and takes over from Kwel, with the aim of protecting the interests of the sailors and especially of the Dutch tugboat industry against foreign competitors. After the war De Hartog scored a second great bestseller with his trilogy God's Beggars (Gods geuzen). First published in 1947-49, it had been reprinted ten times by 1967, was translated into English in 1957 and made into a Hollywood movie, The Spiral Road, in 1962. It tells the story of young Dr Anton Zorgdrager and his heroic adventures in the Colonial Health Service of the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia). Zorgdrager's first assignment is to fight a plague epidemic in Borneo, and around him De Hartog paints a whole world of colonial characters and episodes - the old Sultan playing billiards in his palace; Dr Brits-Jansen, the subject of many tall stories, an outspoken atheist and the world's greatest authority on leprosy; and the heroic Captain Willem Waterreus of the Salvation Army whose wife, once a prostitute in Amsterdam, is now a leper dying in Java. In the course of the novel Zorgdrager goes through a soul-wrenching, existentialist battle with religious doubt. Its climax is the gripping tale of tropical madness in the closing chapters, which was separately published as ‘Duel with a Witch Doctor’ in Reader's Digest Condensed Books in 1961. Set on the wild coast of New Guinea, it recounts the spiritual battle between young Zorgdrager and the Papuan witch doctor Burubi whose black magic slowly drives Zorgdrager insane, causing him to run off into the jungle and degenerate into a naked apeman, until he is, finally, saved by the white magic, the true religion, of his friend the Salvation Army Captain. Despite these two great successes, or perhaps because of them, De Hartog - whose model had been the American novelist and social critic Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) - was seen as ‘just’ a popular storyteller. His novels received little critical acclaim in the Netherlands, not least because his heroic romanticism and passionate religious concerns were perceived as simplistic in the prevailing intellectual climate of post-war Holland. In retaliation, in 1950 De Hartog, defending his own craftsmanship and ‘ unrelenting, shameless honesty ’, launched a scathing attack on what he called the pathological degeneration of the Dutch highbrows of the day - writers like Simon Vestdijk, Anna Blaman and W.F. Hermans, no less - whom he described as a bunch of ‘ psychopaths, spotty adolescents, lesbian women. and bloated masturbators .’ After this clash De Hartog left the Netherlands and - like other Dutch authors such as Dola de Jong, Leo Vroman and Hans Koning - settled in the United States. He decided to write in English, and from the start this was a great success. In 1951 his play The Fourposter - about his love affair with Dutch actress Lily Bouwmeester - was turned into a musical, I Do, I Do , and became a hit on Broadway, where in 1952 it was chosen as best play of the New York season. That same year The Fourposter was made into a movie, and in Minneapolis I Do, I Do began a successful run of 22 years. Another of his plays, Skipper next to God , was also made into a film, The Inspector (1961); in it, after the war, a Dutch policeman rescues a Jewish girl from an ex-Nazi and helps to smuggle her to Palestine. But what really made him famous was his novel The Hospital (1964), which offered a hard-hitting critique, inspired by his Quaker beliefs, of the scandalous conditions in the Houston hospital for poor and black people. Eventually, De Hartog's campaign for healthcare reform led to his appointment as extraordinary professor of gerontology and, early in 2002, to an honorary doctorate of the University of Houston. In 1969, in a Quaker protest against the Vietnam war, he launched a campaign for the adoption of the countless war orphans from that country with his book The Children . In the seventies this was followed by his great four-volume historical novel about the Quakers in the United States, The Peaceable Kingdom (1972-1975). But the sea was really his first love, and it always played a central role in his work, both in fiction and in film. In The Lost Sea (1951) he wrote of his adventures when as a ten-year-old he ran away to sea. In 1952 the English translation of Hollands Glorie came out as Captain Jan. A Story of Ocean Tugboats . His sailors' novel Stella (1950) was made into the film The Key (1958), starring William Holden and Sophia Loren. In the sixties his novel The Captain (1966) sold more than one million copies. In 1971, his fifth Hollywood film, The Little Ark , told the story of two war orphans and their pets who are trapped in a flood, but sail to safety in a houseboat. The film was based on his novel of 1953, the year of the great floods that devastated the Netherlands. In December 2002, De Hartog's ashes were scattered in the North Sea, not far from the coast of his native Holland. Jan De Hartog. Although Jan De Hartog is probably not considered in the same league with Herman Melville and Walt Whitman, he certainly has left his mark on the literary field. His output is prolific in terms of numbers of books written, but also in terms of how many of his books were turned into stage plays and/or films. He is also well known because his books were written in Dutch during the early part of his writing career and in English during the latter part of his career. Many of his Dutch titles were eventually also translated into English. In The Netherlands he is best known for “Holland’s Glory”, a book written just prior to the invasion by the Nazi’s of his homeland, The Netherlands in 1940. The book became a best seller overnight and sustained the Dutch population during the five-year military occupation and suffering under the hated Nazi regime. It is estimated that over a million copies of “Holland’s Glory” were sold during the war time period. Considering that the entire Dutch population then was well under 10 million, the one million copies sold is an enormous number. The book was banned by the Nazi’s, but that did not deter hidden printing presses from continuing to turn out the book in huge numbers. In the United States he is best known for his three books about the Quakers, consisting of the “Peaceable Kingdom” in 1978 [or 1972], the “Peculiar People” in 1988 [or 1992], and “The Lamb’s War” in 1982 [or 1980]. De Hartog was not a Quaker for much of his life. His father was a theology professor at the University of Amsterdam, and a member of the Dutch Reformed Church. His mother was interested in the Quaker movement, and later became a Quaker, but it is not clear she was a Quaker at the time De Hartog was a child. Jan De Hartog personally did not become a Quaker until he was in his late forties or early fifties and after he had moved to the United States in the early sixties. De Hartog wrote about two dozen novels and several plays, some in Dutch and others in English and some, of course, in both languages. His first book appeared under the pseudonym, F.R.Eckmar in 1935. During the thirties he wrote about eight novels, but none was considered outstanding, until he produced “Holland’s Glory” in 1940. It made his name a household word for the next five years in The Netherlands. De Hartog’s first English language book appeared in 1942 and was published in the United Kingdom. Its title was “Captain Jan”. Following the war in 1945, De Hartog returned to his native Holland and wrote a trilogy, “Gods Geuzen”, in the 1947-1949 time period. It was followed by another trilogy, “Stella”, “Mary”, and ”Thalassa”, in 1950. During the fifties he wrote several other Dutch novels, but none of note. Following his move to the United States his books were largely in English. Some of the more notable ones appeared in both languages. A most notable one was about the conditions in a Houston hospital. It was entitled, “The Hospital”, published in 1964. The Dutch translation, ”Het Ziekenhuis” appeared in 1965. De Hartog’s other major book of note was an English language book entitled, “The Captain”, published in the United States in 1966. It sold over a million copies in the United States, excluding the copies sold in England. It was based on a true life story about an escorted convoy of merchant ships traveling between Iceland and Murmansk, Russia, supplying the Russians as part of the World War II lend lease program. Because of a mix up in communications, the convoy split up and nearly the entire convoy was torpedoed by the Germans without any survivors. In 1967 the book, under the title, “De Kapitein” appeared in a Dutch language version. De Hartog’s other notable books are the “Four Poster” published in 1951 and “The Spiral Road”, published in 1957. Both books either became stage plays or films were made based on the books. There was also a book which describes De Hartog hiding from the Nazi’s in his native Holland during the war in a nursing home where he was disguised as a female patient. He eventually was able to escape to England by way of an arduous journey through occupied Belgium, occupied France, Switzerland, Spain and Portugal before reaching England in 1943. A number of his other books were translated into stage plays or movies. Actors who played roles in his plays or movies consisted of William Holden, Sophia Loren, Burl Ives, and Rock Hudson among others. Not much detail is known about De Hartog’s private life. With his first wife Vidia he had a son and a daughter during the thirties. During the forties, while in England, he married his second wife, Angela Wyndham, who was J. B. Priestley’s step daughter. That marriage also produced a son and a daughter. There is little information as to what happened to either one of the first two wives. He remarried again in the sixties to Marjorie Hein, to whom he remained married until his death in 2002. De Hartog passed away on September 22, 2002. His remains were cremated and returned to his native country. On December 6, 2002, De Hartog’s ashes, accompanied by his family members, were taken out to sea on an oceangoing tug, named “Smitwijs Singapore”, owned by the Smit Ocean Towing Company. Upon reaching the open waters of the North Sea the ashes were spread on the waters of the North Sea. The importance of using the ocean tug relates to the story of his famous book, “Holland’s Glory”, which describes the life of Dutch sailors on ocean going tugs such as the “Smitwijs Singapore”. From the above it is clear that De Hartog left an indelible imprint on the people in both his native country, The Netherlands, and on his adopted country, the United States, and to a considerable extent on people in many other parts of the world. Gods Geuzen - Jan de Hartog (1947) In de jaren dertig stond de Dienst voor Volksgezondheid in Nederlands Indië bekend als een vreemdelingenlegioen voor artsen. Alle diploma's werden geaccepteerd en naar iemands verleden werd niet gevraagd. Als gevolg daarvan werkte in de oerwouden van Nederlands Indië een ploeg van vrijgevochten artsen van verschillende nationaliteiten. Een net afgestudeerd arts, Anton Zorgdrager, valt daar als groentje tussen. Hij wordt de protégé van een wereldbekend lepraspecialist. Anton Zorgdrager is streng christelijk opgevoed, maar heeft zijn geloof van zich afgeschud. Hij is naïef als hij in Indië aankomt, wordt echter stevig op de proef gesteld en leert zich noodgedwongen te handhaven. Hij ontdekt dat hij in het oerwoud als medicus veel beter functioneert dan in Nederland of in een saaie, geordende koloniale omgeving. Hij komt onder de geheimzinnige bekoring van de wildernis en voelt dat zijn zakelijke, atheïstische kijk op de wereld hem ontglipt. Toch schudt hij de spirituele beklemming die hem bevangt steeds weer van zich af. TROMMERNE, JAN DE HARTOG, genre: drama. Trommerne fra 1948 er anden del af en trilogi om den unge læge Anton Zorgdrager, der rejser til Indonesien for at arbejde som læge for kolonistyret, men i stedet bliver draget mod junglen, der inficerer hans sind som en gift. Oversat af Bodil Anker Larsen efter "Gods Geuzen" II. Antal sider: 336. Størrelse: Ca. 18.3 x 12 cm. Se alle billederne! GLS Pakke med sporing (du afhenter i din lokale pakkeshop): Kr. 35. Eller GLS Pakke med sporing og omdeling: Kr. 54 Eller Post Nord alm. brev, uden sporing, med omdeling (250->2000 gram): Kr. 60 Eller Post Nord Pakke med sporing: Kr. 85 (Kr. 70 uden omdeling). 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