THE WOLF ESCAPED THE PUBLISHER'S LAIR.
Jan Bennink
Dichter van Olga, schrijver van Wolf. Complonaut op JanBennink.com en @superjan. Ik werk harder dan ooit. Maar buiten de glibberige tredmolen, waar LinkedIn onderdeel van uitmaakt. Zoek en vind mij op graziger weiden.
Now for sale at Amsterdam Books.
This week my second book saw the light of day. And i must say, it turned out almost as beautiful as Olga . Though the purpose of WOLF was not to be "Romanov princess pretty".
WOLF contains my thoughts, written down during times of Covid. A surreal period in time, most of us would rather forget. A time in which suddenly every rug was pulled away from under our feet.
A time in which everyone's Hobbit world was turned upside down. Who could we still trust? Teachers? Professors? Doctors? Politicians? Our neighbors and old friends? Our parents?
What was the truth? What was the lie and why?
Why, the ****, did they obviously lie?
For me this period was a cascade of watershed moments, shocks, disillusions and epiphany's.
Moments of unexpected fears and unsuspected strength.
Of new alliances and broken chains.
It is only possible to see brightest of lights in a realm of total darkness.
For that clarity, i'am grateful.
I decided to never trust authority again. To never accept "good intentions" of the state. To turn every slogan upside down and every narrative inside out. To question everything and everyone. To recognize the signs, who was to be trusted, and who to better keep at bay.
To find God in a barren world. And embark on a journey to find a glimmer of truth in an endless tangle of lies and deceit.
In WOLF, i unwittingly wrote down a quest, going down a slippery and treacherous path full of pitfalls and trapdoors.
A road, now instinctively shunned, but not yet officially closed.
On the contrary.
And for that reason, maybe WOLF is a book to be read.