"A lyrical 'book of days' . . . A bejewelled mosaic" Financial
Times "Humane, insightful and deeply cultured" Times Literary
Supplement Though a tireless explorer of distant cultures, for more
than forty years Cees Nooteboom has also been returning to Menorca,
"the island of the wind", and it is in his house there, 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 not
a diary, nor a set of movements of the soul organised by dates, but
"a book of days", with observations about what is immediately
around him, his love for Menorca, his thoughts on the world, on
life and death, on literature and oblivion. Every impression opens
windows onto vast horizons: the Divine Comedy and the books it
generated, the contempt of Borges for Gombrowicz, the death of
David Bowie, the endless flight of the Voyagers, the repetition of
history as a tragedy, but never as farce. 533 is a meditative
rhapsody that would like to exclude the noise of current events,
yet must return to them several times, and sceptically contemplates
the threat of a disintegrating Europe. Reading this book is like
having an extraordinary conversation with an extraordinary mind.
"The very first pages are so powerful that you suspect the author
must have binned the preceding pages that were needed to climb to
such heights" De Volkskrant "The 533 days captivate in their
undisguised openness to the world" Suddeutsche Zeitung Photographs
by Simone Sassen * Translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson
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