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Keynote/Publishers CommentWinner of the 1993 Aristeion European Literary Prize, this strikingly original novel is textured with the humour, pathos and expansive knowledge that have become the hallmark of Holland's most popular writer.
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Socrates is a former Classics teacher at a Dutch lyc-e; Dr Strabon is a renowned travel writer, revered by many a Dutch tourist as the ultimate authority on the world outside Holland; Alfred Mussert is a misanthrope, but he is also the man behind the masks of these other incongruous alter egos. Waking one morning to find himself in a seedy hotel room in Portugal and with the feeling that he is perhaps dead, Mussert wonders what has happened to bring him here when he is certain that he went to bed the night before in Amsterdam. Checking his reflection in the bathroom mirror, Socrates stares back at him and Mussart consequently looks back into his past questioning the whys and wherefores of his former lives and his one love. (20021217)
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful
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Cees Nooteboom's The Following Story is a miraculous book. Waking one morning in a hotel room in Lisbon having fallen asleep in his house in Amsterdam, the novel's central character - classical scholar, schoolteacher, writer of pot-boiler travel guides - narrates the events that lead, through affairs and hearsay, to a conclusion that is almost silent in its prosaic devastation. The prose, throughout, is lucid and evocative, humorous and profound. Nooteboom weaves a magical yarn of death and love and the smallness of everyday occurances. And at barely 100 pages perhaps the essence of the modern novel
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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This book is beautifully written/translated. It's mysterious and yet the language is precise and the plot carefully structured. A short novel, but probably best read in quiet sittings. Allow yourself the time to go back and re-read passages, soak it in slowly. Lovely reading experience!
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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The author is best known in his home country, the Netherlands, and is best known outside the Netherlands for his book Roads to Santiago.
I met the author very briefly in Menorca in October 2010 and was stimulated to buy this book. He has an opinion on everything I think...
The book is short, at less than 100 pages, but is excellent.
The opening line is great: "I have never had an exaggerated interest in my own person, but unfortunately this did not imply I could not stop thinking about myself at will, from one moment to the next".
The book is dream-like almost an educated ramble in part. A tad offbeat but I liked it.
I met the author very briefly in Menorca in October 2010 and was stimulated to buy this book. He has an opinion on everything I think...
The book is short, at less than 100 pages, but is excellent.
The opening line is great: "I have never had an exaggerated interest in my own person, but unfortunately this did not imply I could not stop thinking about myself at will, from one moment to the next".
The book is dream-like almost an educated ramble in part. A tad offbeat but I liked it.
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