Bibliograph

533 days, Cees Nooteboom ; translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson ; photographs, Simone Sassen

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533 days, Cees Nooteboom ; translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson ; photographs, Simone Sassen

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

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contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

533 days

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1293295226

Responsibility statement

Cees Nooteboom ; translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson ; photographs, Simone Sassen

Series statement

A Margellos World Republic of Letters Book

Summary

"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 skeptically contemplates the threat of a disintegrating Europe. Reading these pages is like having a conversation with an extraordinary mind."--, Dust Jacket

resource.variantTitle

Five hundred and thiry-three days

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