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Self-Portrait of an Other: Dreams of the Island and the Old City
Self-Portrait of an Other: Dreams of the Island and the Old City in Bloomington, MN
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Cees Nooteboom, best known for his novel
The Following Story
,is one of the most distinguished and significant authors living in the Netherlands today.
Self-Portrait of an Other
is one of the most unique and innovative works in his oeuvre. Written in response to and published together with a series of drawings by the Berlin-based artist Max Neumann, the book draws on Nooteboom’s personal reflections his arsenal of memories, dreams, fantasies, landscapes, stories and nightmares and presents a set of prose poems that complements and echoes Neumann’s work. Full of striking scenes and disturbing images, the poems, driven by the logic of dreams, create the self-portrait of the title.
Available now for the first time in English,
brings together both the images and the text inspired by them, creating an unusual and creative poetic collection.
The Following Story
,is one of the most distinguished and significant authors living in the Netherlands today.
Self-Portrait of an Other
is one of the most unique and innovative works in his oeuvre. Written in response to and published together with a series of drawings by the Berlin-based artist Max Neumann, the book draws on Nooteboom’s personal reflections his arsenal of memories, dreams, fantasies, landscapes, stories and nightmares and presents a set of prose poems that complements and echoes Neumann’s work. Full of striking scenes and disturbing images, the poems, driven by the logic of dreams, create the self-portrait of the title.
Available now for the first time in English,
brings together both the images and the text inspired by them, creating an unusual and creative poetic collection.
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