Self-Portrait of an Other - Dreams of the Island and the Old City
Author(s): Cees Nooteboom; David Colmer (Translator); Max Neumann
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, Self-Portrait of an Other brings together both the images and the text inspired by them, creating an unusual and creative poetic collection.
General Information
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- : Seagull Books
- : Seagull Books London Ltd
- : 0.358
- : 01 February 2018
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Cees Nooteboom; David Colmer (Translator); Max Neumann
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 76