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The Procedure

By: Harry Mulisch
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking
ISBN: 0670889296
ISBN-13: 9780670889297
Released: 08 Feb 2001
RRP: £16.99
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Very disappointing. - By: Nick Richards, 24 Jan 2002
I picked this up after "Discovery of Heaven" which is one of my favourite books ever. I found this very disappointing in comparison. Whilst there are two stories here, one of them is over in the first chapter & the other drags on to a rather inconclusive ending with far too many loose ends for my liking.
After the discovery, let's discover genetics - By: , 17 Aug 2001
This book is surely not an easy read. This is no relaxing stuff even though the first chapter is quite hilarious & has no direct paralllel in literature of this day (not that I know of, anyway), reminding vaguely of Calvino's first chapter of On a winters night a traveller & the Foucault Pendulum of Eco. But the introductory chapter is only the beginning of something that probes much deeper than the Hebrew aleph-beth. Human existence, creation & the ever so actual question on how far we human can interfere in (human) genetics is written between the lines of two fascinating stories of creation of life & the death that follows in two even more fascinating environments; 15th century Prague's ghetto & todays Global Village. The eloquence in fusing the political & scientific sides of this theme into such a literary story that even at surface level is a joy to read (though you'd miss out much & the different stories would make less sense standing next to each other)is unlike many other authors but reminds me mostly of Mulisch's Discovery of Heaven. A definite good read for those interested. One advice though, read The Discovery of Heaven first; you will familiarise yourself with Mulisch's writing style & understand a lot more of this novel as in many ways it mirrors this preceding work.