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In The New York Review of Books bespreekt Tim Parks in oktober 2011 het werk van een aantal Nederlands auteurs. Over The Window Dresser van Christiaan Weijts schrijft Parks:

In The Window Dresser, Christiaan Weijts sets up a conundrum of moral responsibility of the kind that Hermans and Mulisch explored in stories about German-occupied Holland: a violent eco activist group attacks a large department store known to invest in such things as arms trafficking and child labor. Trapped between the antagonists is the talented artist and window dresser who is redesigning the store and whose long-lost love turns out to be a member of the protest group. Never declaring where the novel takes place, Weijts constantly stresses the sameness of urban environments worldwide, a similarity that is extended to the consciousness of their inhabitants:

Globalisation, he thinks, inevitably leads to uniformity. Across the globe, almost everybody begins their working day to the same little tune that tells them Windows is starting up. During the day they use the same programs—Word, Outlook, Excel—read the same books—Grisham, King, Brown—in the evenings, and watch the world’s news on homogeneous TV channels, with the same headlines at the bottom of the screen next to a stock market stream. Why do we need so many people, you ask yourself, if they all end up having the same experiences?

Thus in the frame of a recognizably Dutch solemnity Weijts questions what it might mean to have a national identity in the modern world.

Van 1 september tot 1 februari verblijft Christiaan Weijts als writer in residence aan het NIAS in Wassenaar. Hier zal hij een roman voltooien die in 2012 gaat verschijnen bij uitgeverij De Arbeiderspers.