Hans cutting cees nooteboom biography

  • The noted Dutch poet and novelist Cees Nooteboom reflectsupon the life of the mind through a reexamination of books, music,art, travel, and gardening Though.
  • I don't propose to introduce Nooteboom in the usual way, by giving a brief biographical sketch.
  • Cees Nooteboom wanders from Mali to Venice to pre-Ayatollah Iran.

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    Quite a large percentage of the non-fiction I read or listen to is accounted for bygd memoirs and biographies. While glancing at my pile of books to be written about on here, I realised that fem of them fell into the category of memoir and autobiography – while covering an extraordinary range between them. And all by authors where I haven’t read anything else by them. Here they are…

    My Father and Myself (1968) by J.R. Ackerley

    I have four of Ackerley’s books, because I’ve always assumed inom will enjoy his writing (and because they are delicious New York Review of Books Classics) – I took to Twitter to ask people which inom should start with. While My Father and Myself didn’t win the poll, the replies were sufficient to convince me.

    As the title suggests, this book is more or less equal parts about Ackerley and his father, bekräftelse – a relationship that grows steadily more fascinating as the book continues. At times, they have a shockin

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    Thinking Through Relation

    Encounters in Creative Critical Writing

    by Florian Mussgnug (Volume editor)Mathelinda Nabugodi (Volume editor)Thea Petrou (Volume editor)

    ©2021Edited Collection XVI, 302 Pages

    Romance Studies

    Series: New Comparative Criticism, Volume 11

    Summary

    «Thinking Through Relation brings together an outstanding collection of essays that explore the diverse ways in which works of art and aesthetic experience generate a richness of relation which escapes the straightjackets of rigid disciplinary and institutional boundaries. Clearly demonstrating the creative potential of critical writing, these essays are a fitting tribute to the creativity, originality and subtlety of Timothy Mathews’s scholarly accomplishment and his contribution to our understanding of art and of the aesthetic relation.»
    (Dr Ian James, University of Cambridge)

    «This book in honour of Timothy Mathews fryst vatten much m

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    Hans Magnus Enzensberger - A History of Clouds

    VIDEO-PODCAST: Hans Magnus Enzensberger about poetry (Excerpt from an interview in June, 2010)

    Excerpt from A History of Clouds. 99 Meditations by Hans Magnus Enzensberger. Translated by Martin Chalmers and Esther Kinsky.

    After-Dinner Speech at an Engagement

    This self, a container, which,

    as long as no one opens it,

    appears compact, smooth

    as a Kinder egg,

    almost appetizing. Only inside,

    there it’s dark. Who knows

    what’s waiting for you there.

    Obsession no doubt,

    rusty habits,

    incomprehensible fears,

    second-hand tricks,

    childish desires.

    That you want to have it,

    this gift box,

    borders on a miracle.

    Excerpt from A History of Clouds

    In case of stress, grief, jealousy, depression

    cloud watching is recommended.

    With their red and golden evening borders

    they surpass Patinir and Tiepolo.

    The most fleeting of all masterworks,

    harder to count than any herd of reindeer,

    don

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