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The Following Story (Paperback)

by Cees Nooteboom (Author)

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Product Details

Paperback: 98 pages
Publisher: Harvill Press; New edition edition (Oct 23 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1860461476
ISBN-13: 978-1860461477
Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.4 x 1 cm
Shipping Weight: 82 g

Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

Amazon.ca Sales Rank: #196,559 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Dutch novelist Nooteboom presents a short fable of a schoolmaster's journey through memory and imagination in the final seconds of his life.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Nooteboom (The Knight Who Died, LJ 6/1/90) is one of The Netherlands' premier writers. In his incomparable style he has written a novella about a man traveling through space who tells a story about traveling through time. Herman Mussert, a Latin and Greek teacher, doesn't believe in the self but in a soul that undergoes endless transformations of love and death. He is nevertheless surprised when he goes to bed in Amsterdam and wakes up in Lisbon, with Portuguese money in his wallet. We follow Mussert's soul as it moves on, eventually leaving life and finding meaning: endless death, endless transformations, endless love. Herman has been trapped in the mundane, but at last he escapes. This novel is all imagination, dream desire, language, and reflection. Recommended for literary fiction collections.
Gene Shaw, NYPL
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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5.0 out of 5 stars What a Story!, Oct 22 2003

By	K. Moore "WKM" (Oxford MS) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Following Story (Paperback)

A friend told me, because I love Jim Harrison, Milorad Pavic', and Walker Percy, that I must read Cees Nooteboom. I bought "The Following Story". I can't explain this book. Van Morrison meets Rilke. Tom Waits meets Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Bruce Cockburn meets Larry Brown. This mysterious and deeply touching tale reaches heights most only dream of. It is a story of love, questions, regret, hope, death, and desire.

Vivillo

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4.0 out of 5 stars The journey to the eternity, Dec 9 2000

By	"irmam" (Slovenia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Following Story (Paperback)

The story starts few minutes before death of Herman Mussert, a teacher of classical languages, and ends few minutes after his death. In this short period of time we learn all the important events of his life. The story is just like a journey to the eternity. It begins in Amsterdam, where Herman is dying of heart attack. It continues in Portugal, where he wakes up and remembers the things happened here years ago that were very important for all his life. The last part of the journey is a journey with the ship over the ocean to the origin of the river Amazon. This is the last part of the journey and it is where the eternity begins.

This is also a story of two men and two women, or three teachers and one student. This is a story of love and jealousy or love and revenge. The very important thing in this book is a relationship between materialistic world of science with all his natural principals, and spirituality. The last moments of life are just the right ones to think about the connection between them.

The novel is very short. In some way, it is cyclic and written in such a way that at the end the reader has a feeling that the story is beginning not ending. But there is already the time for a following story - the story of the next traveller on the journey to the eternity.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Masterpiece of modern literature, Jan 4 2000

By	Andrew Karbovsky (Almaty, Kazakstan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Following Story (Hardcover)

I've come across this book quite inadvertently (or serendipitously taking into account the results)attracted by its European Literary Prize. But from the first page I was fascinated by this literary masterpiece of previously unknown (for me) author. It is a love story dressed in apparel of modern psychology and philosophy, overwhelming beautiful and devastatingly sad, absolutely devoided of schmaltz. This incredibly succinct book includes stupendous magnitude of contemplations and reflections, metaphors and symbols, images and emotions. Its composition is perfect - from humorous observations of ostentatious misanthrope nonplussed by extraordinary awaking in a memorable place to the pinnacle of genuine understanding of human tragedy of classical scope where jealousy and vengeance generate distorted passion and destroy real love. Its language is exquisite, the language of the sincere poet. It is the book which you'll want to reread when the last phrase still reverberates in your mind. It is one of the best books I've ever read, chef d'oeuvre of intelligent, perspicacious and generous author.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful novella.
This is the first book by a dutch author I have read, and its excellence has led me to think that this nation is unfairly neglected. Read more

Published on Nov 29 1999 by R.L.Sutherland

3.0 out of 5 stars Nice writing, weak story
"The Following Story" is full of lovely, epigramatical observations about life, language, love, and learning. Read more

Published on Sep 10 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a gem!
Rarely can such a slim book encompass such huge ideas and articulate them so eloquently. Additionally it is a brilliant love story with not a trace of sentimentality. Read more

Published on Aug 23 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars Witty and wise
Mr. Nootebooms book tells a fascinating story about an outlived teacher in classical languages (or a classical teacher in languages). Read more

Published on Nov 21 1997