Short novels are usually more tightly structured than longer ones, built on a unifying theme rather than on plot development or character exploration. Dutch travel writer and novelist Cees Nooteboom ...

Heráclito aterriza en la memoria de Cees Nooteboom mientras se encuentra ante un Bosco en el Museo Boymans de Róterdam: “Nadie puede bañarse dos veces en el mismo río”. Como nadie podría encontrarse ...

Cees Nooteboom, now 75, is one of the two Dutch writers -- along with his slightly older contemporary, Harry Mulisch -- whose name always turns up on those mysterious annual short lists of Nobel Prize ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. A great traveller himself, as you can imagine, he lives in Amsterdam and Berlin in the winter and in ...

I live in the oldest part of Amsterdam, on a street named after a red windmill, a windmill that's no longer there. On old maps, where the city is still small, a long line of windmills lies beyond what ...

Self-Portrait of an Other: Dreams of the Island and the Old City with drawings by Max Neumann, translated by David Colmer (Seagull Books) Eminent Dutch novelist Cees Nooteboom discusses his book of ...

There's a scene in Nooteboom's latest novel that functions like the keynote to a score. Arno Tieck, an old German scholar, tells the well-known story of Hegel's remark, after he "heard the distant ...

He gets compared to Calvino, Borges and Nabokov, but Cees Nooteboom is a surprising and unique talent all his own. Often touted as a Nobel contender, Nooteboom is also a literary traveller — he took ...

Cees Nooteboom: It is very difficult for, let's say, foreigners to get the exact idea of what it's all about, it's very complicated. I'm not at all sure that I have fully understood most of it, but ...