{"id":41147,"date":"2022-11-03T16:52:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T15:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/?page_id=41147"},"modified":"2022-11-03T17:49:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T16:49:26","slug":"shifts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/foreignrights\/authors\/stefan-hertmans\/shifts\/","title":{"rendered":"Stefan Hertmans &#8211; Shifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Read our <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/foreignrights\/authors\/stefan-hertmans\/shifts\/sample\/\">sample translation<\/a> of\u00a0<em>Shifts<\/em><\/h4>\n<h3>About the book<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">If there is one line that\u2019s been reverberating in Stefan Hertmans\u2019 mind for years, it\u2019s Victor Klemperer\u2019s famous quote, written with a steady hand in his famous journals during the Nazi period, amid terror and uncertainty: \u2018The contemporary witness knows nothing.\u2019 There is one thing that we do know: this is a time of transition to something we\u2019re only just beginning to understand. We are all eyewitnesses, though we\u2019re only partially aware of exactly what it is we\u2019re a witness to\u2014to our current reality and the shifts we feel every day without knowing exactly what they will amount to. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">In these ruminations, as erudite as they are sensitive, Stefan Hertmans undertakes the challenge of trying to capture something of this zeitgeist, of pinning down the things that tend to elude our grasp in the chaos of day-to-day life.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read our sample translation of\u00a0Shifts About the book If there is one line that\u2019s been reverberating in Stefan Hertmans\u2019 mind for years, it\u2019s Victor Klemperer\u2019s famous quote, written with a steady hand in his famous journals during the Nazi period, amid terror and uncertainty: \u2018The contemporary witness knows nothing.\u2019 There is one thing that we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3251,"featured_media":41157,"parent":17449,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-41147","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/3251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41147\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/41157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}