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| Original Title: | Nooit meer slapen |
| ISBN: | 9023401735 (ISBN13: 9789023401735) |
| Edition Language: | Dutch |
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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| 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 |
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Ratings: 3.87 From 6297 Users | 229 ReviewsWrite Up Epithetical Books Nooit meer slapen
Willem Frederik Hermans is yet another excellent foreign writer it has taken anglo-sphere publishers too long to translate. Written over half a century ago, Beyond Sleep is set in a world before GPS and widespread communications, when it was all too easy to get lost. Hermans depiction of the sheer physicality of tramping across arctic tundra, under relentless attack from mosquitoes and flies, with a heavy pack, inappropriate footwear and faulty equipment is harrowing. The constant daylightGezellig 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
Oh wow, this was really really boring.I was kind of ashamed that I hadn't read a Dutch book this year, but also in general, I read very little books that are published in the Netherlands. So I found a list made by a big Dutch newspaper with the 10 best Dutch books ever. I had only read one book on that list and that was Het huis van de moskee and I really liked that one plus the list contained some other well known books that you "have to read", so I thought; let's try to read the books on this
This is still a masterpiece, one of my high school favorites, but it didnt age very well. Read it about 30 years ago and back then I didnt notice the racism and sexism in the book. This time I did, and it annoyed me. Cant really blame the author I guess, if it didnt stand out, the first time I read it, already many years after it had been written. There was also an episode in Bergen at the end of the book that I found a bit disappointing. It didnt add anything, and it made the end of the book
A book about a man falling short of his expectations. How fitting then that this book should fall so short of mine. I had great patience with this book. I trekked across 178 pages of it, at least a whole 2/3rds of the thing, but sadly I found the plot is just as empty as the book's landscape. The story progresses at an UNBEARABLY slow pace, with the narrator's journey (the main focus of the book) not even beginning until about 50 pages in. And even then a lot of the text is just given to the
A dark satire on a geologist's quest to do research for his phd thesis against all odds. No sleep, just death, embaressment, jealousy and plenty of mosquitoes in the highlands of Norway.
To 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
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