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Title: The Following Story by Cees Nooteboom, Ina Rilke ISBN: 0-15-600254-X Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: January, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: What a Story!
Comment: A friend told me, because I love Jim Harrison, Milorad Pavic', and Walker Percy, that I must read Cees Nooteboom. I bought "The Following Story". I can't explain this book. Van Morrison meets Rilke. Tom Waits meets Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Bruce Cockburn meets Larry Brown. This mysterious and deeply touching tale reaches heights most only dream of. It is a story of love, questions, regret, hope, death, and desire.
Vivillo
Rating: 4
Summary: The journey to the eternity
Comment: The story starts few minutes before death of Herman Mussert, a teacher of classical languages, and ends few minutes after his death. In this short period of time we learn all the important events of his life. The story is just like a journey to the eternity. It begins in Amsterdam, where Herman is dying of heart attack. It continues in Portugal, where he wakes up and remembers the things happened here years ago that were very important for all his life. The last part of the journey is a journey with the ship over the ocean to the origin of the river Amazon. This is the last part of the journey and it is where the eternity begins.
This is also a story of two men and two women, or three teachers and one student. This is a story of love and jealousy or love and revenge. The very important thing in this book is a relationship between materialistic world of science with all his natural principals, and spirituality. The last moments of life are just the right ones to think about the connection between them.
The novel is very short. In some way, it is cyclic and written in such a way that at the end the reader has a feeling that the story is beginning not ending. But there is already the time for a following story - the story of the next traveller on the journey to the eternity.
Rating: 5
Summary: Masterpiece of modern literature
Comment: I've come across this book quite inadvertently (or serendipitously taking into account the results)attracted by its European Literary Prize. But from the first page I was fascinated by this literary masterpiece of previously unknown (for me) author. It is a love story dressed in apparel of modern psychology and philosophy, overwhelming beautiful and devastatingly sad, absolutely devoided of schmaltz. This incredibly succinct book includes stupendous magnitude of contemplations and reflections, metaphors and symbols, images and emotions. Its composition is perfect - from humorous observations of ostentatious misanthrope nonplussed by extraordinary awaking in a memorable place to the pinnacle of genuine understanding of human tragedy of classical scope where jealousy and vengeance generate distorted passion and destroy real love. Its language is exquisite, the language of the sincere poet. It is the book which you'll want to reread when the last phrase still reverberates in your mind. It is one of the best books I've ever read, chef d'oeuvre of intelligent, perspicacious and generous author.
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Title: Rituals (Harvest Book) by Cees Nooteboom, Adrienne Dixon ISBN: 0156003945 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: In the Dutch Mountains: A Novel (Harvest Book) by Cees Nooteboom, Adrienne Dixon, Cees Noteboom ISBN: 015600402X Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch, Paul Vincent ISBN: 0140239375 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Assault by Harry Mulisch ISBN: 0394744209 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 12 March, 1986 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee ISBN: 0140296409 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 31 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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