Self-Portrait of an Other: Dreams of the Island and the Old City (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780857425294)

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.

Author: Cees Nooteboom, Max Neumann
ISBN-10: 0857425293
ISBN-13: 9780857425294
Publisher: Seagull Books
Language: English
Published: 02/15/2018
Pages: 76
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 10.80h x 7.60w x 0.40d