Cees Nooteboom
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Cees Nooteboom, born Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria Nooteboom, July 31, 1933, in the Hague, Netherlands is a Dutch author. He has won both the Pegasus Prize and the Constantijn Huygens Prize.
His works include Rituelen (Rituals, 1980); Een lied van schijn en wezen (A Song of Truth and Semblance, 1981); Berlijnse notities (Berlin Notes, 1990); Het volgende verhaal (The Following Story, 1991); Allerzielen (All Souls' Day, 1998) and Paradijs verloren (Paradise Lost, 2004).
"The world is a never-ending cross reference." -Cees Nooteboom
Works
A Song of Truth and Semblance (1981)
- "When he later contemplated what had been his first feelings on meeting Laura Fičev, he usually got no further than 'homesickness'. He was not the man to analyze his feelings, nor was homesickness a particularly clearly defined concept for him (certainly not in connection with people), and yet it appeared to be the only word that could to some degree give expression to the strange emotion that possessed him ever since that first instant and had never left him again, whether she was present or not."
- * Source: Nooteboom, Cees (1990). A Song of Truth and Semblance. London: Penguin Books. Chapter 14, page 35. ISBN 0-14-011678-8.
- "After an hour they had no more to say to each other. On the chessboard of their friendship a decisive move had been made, and as neither had made it deliberately, they were not yet sure what it meant. Something had changed. It would of course be simplest to say that something had changed in the power relationship between the two men, that the one showed himself to be weaker than the other had imagined him to be, but that would have to mean that whoever was now the stronger had always been the stronger though without knowing it."
- * Source: Nooteboom, Cees (1990). A Song of Truth and Semblance. London: Penguin Books. Chapter 21, page 70. ISBN 0-14-011678-8.
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