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| Title | : | Nooit meer slapen |
| Author | : | Willem Frederik Hermans |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 251 pages |
| Published | : | 1974 by De Bezige Bij (first published January 1st 1966) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Literature. European Literature. Dutch Literature. Classics |
Willem Frederik Hermans
Paperback | Pages: 251 pages Rating: 3.87 | 6297 Users | 229 Reviews
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Nooit meer slapen is het meesterlijke verhaal van de jonge geoloog Alfred Issendorf, die in het moerassige noorden van Noorwegen onderzoek wil verrichten om de hypothese van zijn leermeester en promotor Sibbelee te staven. Issendorf is ambitieus: hij hoopt dat hem op deze reis iets groots te wachten staat, dat zijn naam aan een belangrijk wetenschappelijk feit zal worden verbonden. Deze ambitie hangt samen met het verlangen het werk van zijn vader, die door een ongeluk tijdens een onderzoekstocht om het leven kwam, te voltooien. Nooit meer slapen is een grootse roman over grote dromen.
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| Original Title: | Nooit meer slapen |
| ISBN: | 9023401735 (ISBN13: 9789023401735) |
| Edition Language: | Dutch |
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Ratings: 3.87 From 6297 Users | 229 ReviewsRate Appertaining To Books Nooit meer slapen
Finished: 29.09.2018Genre: novelRating: C+#20BooksOfAutumnConclusion:Dutch is my second language. It is time I started 20 books by Dutch authors considered 20th C must reads.W.F. Hermans is the first one on the list. ReviewTo be honest I'm not a big fan of dutch literature, but I actually enjoyed this book. Although the story started of slow, it slowly started to develop until I was really intrigued by the story line. What made the book special in my opinion was the fact that everything you could think of was written down. For example, when Alfred is walking 25 kilometers and starts to get tired, he counts his steps and is encouraging himself to continue his journey. Every normal person does this (at least I think
W.F. Hermans (1921-1995) is one of the most highly acclaimed post-war Dutch writers. The first two-thirds or so of this novel is Kafkaesque. A somewhat hapless young scientist, eager to prove that small circles of water in northern Norway were caused by meteors, joins up with three more hardened and extremely strange scientists on a geological expedition. He is hardly up to the task and stumbles from one mishap to another, all absurd and at times quite funny. But Hermans seems to have a more
how strange that this book has made such an impression on me; the topic is not among my interests, there is not much going on and the protagonist is a bit of an insecure, self-centred idiot - still the descriptions of the norwegian landscape, the highly philosophical conversations between the characters and in general hermans' style create a strangely gripping if desolate atmosphere.
The most neat Dutch novel I have ever read: a cunningly balanced composition (contrary to the other work of Hermans), beautifully written (especially the desolate 'jungle' of Lapland), and with a clear focus on the absurdity of life, religion and even science. The notorious gloominess of Hermans is all around, especially in the 'philosopical' conversations of Alfred with other hikers and with himself, but it isn't vexatious, on the contrary, it seems very natural. Beautiful.
Gezellig om thuis te blijvenBeyond Sleep is a novel of the Dutchman Abroad, a genre not without charm but perhaps an acquired taste. Its moral is typical of the genre: Gezellig om thuis te blijven, It's probably best not to leave the front garden. It was written in 1966 but remained untranslated into English for forty years. This delay makes it even more of a period piece, expressing some of the most important self-criticisms of Dutch society of the time at an effective and safe distance. Beyond
Half road movie half bildungroman; a Dutch student on an research trip, where "trip" is learning experience about what research constitutes. Paranoia about unhelpful peers and mentors (portrait of blind professor in Oslo and hostility between Dutch and Norwegian scholars). Physicality of trip displaces the object of research. Irony at the end: possible account of what he has been looking all along and does not see when it appears (meteorite). Death of companion and entries in his journal turns
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