Cees Nooteboom,Max Neumann,David Colmer
Cees Nooteboom, best known for his novel ,The Following Story,,is one of the most distinguished and significant authors living in the Netherlands today.Â ,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 Neumann, the book draws on Nooteboomâ€™s personal reflections â€”his arsenal of memories, dreams, fantasies, landscapes, stories and nightmaresâ€” and presents a set of prose poems that complements and echoes Neumannâ€™s work. Full of striking scenes and disturbing images, the poems, driven by the logic of dreams, create the self-portrait of the title.Â 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.Â ,Praise for Nooteboom,â€œ[Nooteboomâ€™s] books seem metaphors for art itself.â€â€”Ed Park, ,Village Voice,Â 
Poetry,Art,European Literature,Dutch Literature
Self-Portrait of an Other: Dreams of the Island and the Old City