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His oeuvre includes novels, short stories, essays, and philosophical and scientific works.

His style is existentialist and generally quite bleak, and his writing style is quite unique in its short and pointed sentences, especially in Dutch. There is no doubt that he was influenced by World War II and the German occupation of the Netherlands between 1940 and 1945, and his longer novels (De tranen der acacia's and De donkere kamer van Damokles) are set during the war. Even his more upbeat writings (Onder professoren and Au pair) can have a strange, existentialist twist to them.

In 1958 W.F. Hermans was appointed as a lecturer in geographyGeography is the scientific study of the locational and spatial variation in both physical and human phenomena on Earth. The word derives from the Greek words g ("the Earth") and graphein ("to write," as in "to describe"). Geography is also the title of v at the Groningen University. In 1973Events January events January 1 United Kingdom, Ireland, and Denmark enter the European Economic Community now known as the European Union January 3 Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) sells the New York Yankees for $10 million to a 12-person syndicate led he resigned and settled as a full time writer in ParisEiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. Paris is the capital and largest city of France. The city is built on an arc of the River Seine, and is thus divided into two parts: the Right Bank to the north and the smaller Left Bank to. In Onder professoren ( 1975Events January January 1 Watergate scandal: John N. Mitchell, H. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up and are sentenced to 30 months to 8 years in jail on February 21 January 5 The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, i) he described the university life in Groningen in a bitter and malign way.

1 Bibliography (selection)

• Moedwil en misverstand (short stories, 19481948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). Events January January 1 Nationalisation of UK railways to form British Railways. Arab militants lay siege to the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. First day of the Ital)
• De tranen der acacia's (novel, 19491949 is the common year starting on Saturday. see link for calendar) Events January-February January 4 RMS Caronia of the Cunard Line departs Southampton for New York on her maiden voyage January 4 February 22 Series of winter storms in Nebraska, Wyoming,)
• Ik heb altijd gelijk (novel, 1951Events January events January 9 United Nations headquarters officially opens ( New York City). January 15 Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald," wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in We)
• Paranoia (short stories, 1953)
• Description et genèse des dépôts meubles de surface et du relief de l'Oesling (dissertation, 1955)
• De God Denkbaar Denkbaar De God (novel, 1956)
• Drie melodrama's (novel/short stories, 1957)
• Een landingspoging op Newfoundland (short stories, 1957)
• De donkere kamer van Damokles (novel, 1958)
• Nooit meer slapen (novel, 1966)
• Een wonderkind of een total loss (verhalen, 1967)
• Herinneringen van een engelbewaarder (novel, 1971)
• Het evangelie van O. Dapper Dapper (novel, 1973)
• Onder professoren (novel, 1975)
• Filip's sonatine (short story, 1980)
• Uit talloos veel miljoenen (novel, 1981)
• Geijerstein's dynamiek (short story, 1982)
• De zegelring (short story, 1984)
• Een heilige van de horlogerie (novel, 1987)
• Au pair (novel, 1989)
• De laatste roker (short stories, 1991)
• In de mist van het schimmenrijk (short story, 1993; boekenweekgeschenk (Dutch Book Week Gift), later published as Madelon in de mist van het schimmenrijk)
• Ruisend gruis (novel, published after his death in 1995)