The Procedure

First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. [iv], 230, [1]. Blue cloth boards lettered in gilt to spine. Translated from the Dutch by Paul Vincent.

Originally published by Uitgeverij De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam, 1998, in an edition of 50,000 copies. There was also a specially-bound issue of 50 copies in full black cloth for the author's use.

Winner of the 1999 Libris Prize (awarded by Dutch booksellers and modelled on the Booker). A surreal re-telling of the Frankenstein myth. One of the "Great Three" (De Grote Drie) of Dutch post-war literature, with more than 80 novels, plays, essays, poems, and philosophical tracts under his belt, Mulisch's 1992 novel The Discovery of Heaven was voted in a 2007 poll of NRC Handelsblad readers as the greatest Dutch book ever written.

"The Procedure is a fascinating and complex novel about the mythical, biological, and literary creation process." –José Lanters, World Literature Today