Bøker av Jaap Stijl

Paris, 1971.Enfant de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, orphelin et soldat adolescent de la guerre d¿Algérie, Michel est désespérément en quête d¿équilibre. Travailleur aux abattoirs de la Villette, il est accablé par les cris des bêtes en souffrance et fait une dépression nerveuse. Se sentant fragilisé par les expériences de la vie, il décide d¿entrer volontairement en hôpital psychiatrique.Michel pourra-t-il atteindre cette plénitude qüil a tant cherchée ?

Gorelov wakes up in an alleyway in the middle of the London riots suffering from a dissociative fugue. Unaware of his identity and having lost his memory, he is rescued by a stranger who guides him out of the riot and on to a journey to help him recover his identity. Is consciousness possible in the absence of memory? The journey ahead is an examination of memory and consciousness told through the allegory of alcoholism using Dante's circles of hell; every door that is opened in order to escape an unending London night of bars and pubs leads not to freedom but to another bar, another circle of hell, and another level of personal crisis, weakness and addiction. The bars and pubs feature cameo appearances by various dead poets and writers, mass murderers, living oligarchs, terrorists, goddesses, Victorian Imperialists, North Korean female soldiers, punk rockers and armed paramilitary thugs among many others and all along the path, Gorelov is haunted by a woman who he may or may not have murdered.