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Self-Portrait of an Other: Dreams of the Island and the Old City
SelfPortrait of an Other Dreams of the Island and the Old City Author:Cees Nooteboom, Max Neumann 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 Ne... more »umann, 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. Praise for Nooteboom?[Nooteboom?s] books seem metaphors for art itself.??Ed Park, Village Voice