The Knight Has Died (English and Dutch Edition) - Hardcover

Nooteboom, Cees

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9780807115442: The Knight Has Died (English and Dutch Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0807115444 ISBN 13: 9780807115442

Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1990

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Traveling to a Mediterranean island to write, a discouraged Dutch novelist becomes involved with an eccentric band of expatriate artists, poets and other outcasts from all over the world

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Text: English, Dutch (translation)

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Nooteboom ( In the Dutch Mountains ) is a Dutch writer who has been compared to Nabokov and Borges. This novel, originally published in the Netherlands in 1982, is a daunting work, a melange of moods, fragments and multiple viewpoints. Blocked novelist Andre Steenkamp seeks release on a Mediterranean island, where, amidst a group of eccentric, artistic expatriates, he falls in love with the mysterious Clara. We already know that Steenkamp dies; the narrator is a friend attempting to complete the novelist's work from chaotic notes and from his own impressions of Steenkamp's life. A fugue-like exploration of death and primal emotions overlaps with suppositions about Steenkamp's angst as man and artist. At the completion of his friend's story, the narrator says, "What a tangle of lies and deceits I have created . . . and how strong does he emerge from it!" The reader will likely concur with the first part of this assessment without endorsing the last.
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