Nooteboom, Cees: 533 Days

Yale University Press, paperback Publication Date: April 18, 2023 Publisher Marketing: The noted Dutch poet and novelist Cees Nooteboom reflects on the life of the mind through a reexamination of books, music, art, travel, and gardening "Nooteboom's real subject is the one that's defined his career--mainly, the persistent strangeness of existence and its refusal to be fully resolved by religion, philosophy, or science. . . . His journal . . . can seem like a medieval bestiary, a nature chronicle with the vividness of a dream."--Danny Heitman, Wall Street Journal "Laura Watkinson's deft English translation never reads like one."--Michael Dirda, Washington Post Though a tireless explorer of distant cultures, Cees Nooteboom has been returning for more than forty years to the Spanish island of Menorca. It is in his house on this "island of the wind," with a study full of books and a garden taken over by cacti and many insects, that the 533 days of writing take place. The result is neither