533 days
Nooteboom, Cees, 1933-2022
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"Though a tireless explorer of distant cultures, for more than forty years Cees Nooteboom has also been returning to Menorca, "the island of the wind." It is in his house there, with a study full of books and a garden taken over by cacti and many insects, that the 533 days of writing take place. The result is not a diary, nor a set of movements of the soul organized by dates, but "a book of days," with observations about what is immediately around him, his love for Menorca, his thoughts on the world, on life and death, on literature and oblivion. Every impression opens windows onto vast horizons: the Divine Comedy and the books it generated, Borges' contempt for Gombrowicz, the death of David Bowie, the endless flight of the Voyagers, the repetition of history as a tragedy, but never as farce. 533 Days is a meditative rhapsody that would like to exclude the noise of current events, yet must return to them several times, and sceptically contemplates the threat of a disintegrating Europe. Reading these pages is like having a conversation with an extraordinary mind."-- Dust Jacket
Main title:
533 days / Cees Nooteboom ; translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson ; photographs, Simone Sassen.
Author:
Nooteboom, Cees, 1933-, authorWatkinson, Laura, translatorSassen, Simone, 1952-, photographer (expression)
Imprint:
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2022.©2021
Collation:
221 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.Translated from the Dutch.
ISBN:
9780300264500 (hbk)9780300264500
Dewey class:
839.318B
Language:
EnglishDutch
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BRN:
514058
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandringham Library | Adult Non Fiction - Languages and Literature | 839.318 NOO | Available |