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The most comprehensive monograph available on the internationally
renowned Belgian floral artist and designer Daniel Ost. Daniel
Ost's work in floral design gores far beyond table arrangements to
bridge the gap between floral design and art. Using elements from
the natural world - flowers, branches, and plants of all varieties,
Ost crates large-scale, site-specific constructions that at times
enter the realms of sculpture and set design. Ost has created
exquisite installations for royal residences, embassies, temples,
international art exhibitions, and the fashion industry. Daniel Ost
presents 80 of his most important projects while accompanying
essays explore their significance and the inspiration behind them.
Lavish photography illustrates each project in this visually
inspiring sourcebook for all creative and design professionals.
Texts by Dutch author Cees Nooteboom and Japanese architect Kengo
Kuma reflect on the impact of Ost's career.
Cees Nooteboom, best known for his novel The Following Story,is one
of the most distinguished and significant authors living in the
Netherlands today. 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 Nooteboom's
personal reflections--his arsenal of memories, dreams, fantasies,
landscapes, stories and nightmares--and presents a set of prose
poems that complements and echoes Neumann's work. Full of striking
scenes and disturbing images, the poems, driven by the logic of
dreams, create the self-portrait of the title.
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Monk's Eye (Hardcover)
Cees Nooteboom; Translated by David Colmer; Illustrated by Sunandini Banerjee
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Cees Nooteboom wrote the poems that make up Monk's Eye on two
islands: he began them on the Dutch island of Schiermonnikoog and
finished them on the Spanish island of Minorca, where he has spent
summers for decades. The poems--which can be read individually or,
all together, as the record of a poet's life--are about the two
islands. But they're also about islands as an archetype, about the
serenity that we can find on beaches and amid dunes, the sea
sweeping imperturbably around us. Accompanied by Sunandini
Banerjee's collages, the poems in this volume are rich in allusion;
they address the past, memories, illusions, dreams, and the heart
of all poetry--which Nooteboom locates in the opening line of
Plato's Phaedrus, when Socrates, walking with his admirer, asks,
"My dear Phaedrus, whence came you, and whither are you going?"
"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
Two men talk in Tokyo. One, a Belgian, is a diplomat. The other,
Dutch, is a photographer. What, they wonder, is the real face of
Japan? How can they get beyond the European idea of the nation and
its people with its exoticism and see Japan as it truly is? The
Belgian has an idea: he helps the photographer find a model to
shoot in front of Mount Fuji as the "typical Japanese." The plan
works better than either had imagined in fact, it works too well:
the photographer falls in love, neglects his friend and his career,
and, feeling out of place and disillusioned in Holland, returns to
Japan as often as possible over the next five years. A reunion is
planned: the three will meet again at Mount Fuji. Time, it seems,
has stood still ...except the woman has a secret, and plans of her
own. This moving novel of obsession and difference is the latest
masterwork from one of the greatest European writers working today,
redolent with the power of desire and alive to the limits of our
understanding of others.
Bilingual poetry book: German and Dutch. TWEETALIGE DICHTBUNDEL:
Duits en Nederlands. Gedichten van Michael Augustin in vertaling.
Gedichte von Michael Augustin (Bremen) in Ubersetzung. Drie
vertalers: Martin Mooij, Cees Nooteboom en Hannie Rouweler. Keuze
uit eerdere publicaties / dichtbundels. A selection from previous
poetry books. Met tekeningen van de dichter (zwart/wit).
Since his first voyage, as a sailor earning his passage from his
native Holland to South America, Cees Nooteboom has never stopped
traveling.Now his best travel pieces are gathered in this
collection of immense range and depth, informed throughout by the
author's humanity and gentle humor. From exotic places such as
Isfahan, Gambia, and Mali to seemingly domesticated places such as
Australia and Munich, Nooteboom shares his view of the world,
showing us the strangeness in places we thought we knew and the
familiarity of places most of us will probably never see.
His phenomenal gifts as an observer and the wealth of his reading
and learning make him an authoritative and delightful
companion.
Nomad's Hotel is a record of a world-class traveler's many
discoveries and insights.
Roads to Santiago is an evocative travelogue through the sights,
sounds, and smells of a little known Spain-its architecture, art,
history, landscapes, villages, and people. And as much as it is the
story of his travels, it is an elegant and detailed chronicle of
Cees Nooteboom's thirty-five-year love affair with his adopted
second country. He presents a world not visible to the casual
tourist, by invoking the great spirits of Spain's past-El Cid,
Cervantes, Alfonso the Chaste and Alfonso the Wise, the ill-fated
Hapsburgs, and Velazquez. Be it a discussion of his trip to the
magnificent Prado Museum or his visit to the shrine of the Black
Madonna of Guadalupe, Nooteboom writes with the depth and
intelligence of an historian, the bravado of an adventurer, and the
passion of a poet. Reminiscent of Robert Hughes's Barcelona, Roads
to Santiago is the consummate portrait of Spain for all
readers.
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Roads to Berlin (Paperback)
Cees Nooteboom; Translated by Laura Watkinson
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Roads to Berlin maps the changing landscape of Germany, from the
period before the fall of the Wall to the present. Written and
updated over the course of several decades, an eyewitness account
of the pivotal events of 1989 gives way to a perceptive
appreciation of its difficult passage to reunification. Nooteboom's
writings on politics, people, architecture and culture are as
digressive as they are eloquent; his innate curiosity takes him
through the landscapes of Heine and Goethe, steeped in Romanticism
and mythology, and to Germany's baroque cities. With an outsider's
objectivity he has crafted an intimate portrait of the country to
its present day.
Set in the cities and islands of the Mediterranean, and linked
thematically, the eight stories in The Foxes Come at Night read
more like a novel, a meditation on memory, life and death. Their
protagonists collect and reconstruct fragments of lives lived
intensely, and now lost, crystallized in memory or in the detail of
a photograph. And yet the tone of these stories is far from
pessimistic: it seems that death is nothing to be afraid of.
"Witty and meditative by turns, the overall effect is like being
shown around by a wonderfully self-effacing, but impressively
erudite guide" The Sunday Times BOOKS OF THE YEAR "Nooteboom has
achieved the impossible: to say something new about the ageless
city about which everything has been said" ALBERTO MANGUEL "The
whole book is the illuminating testimony of a man who cannot look
away and so sees things that others, even those with more
specialist knowledge, have missed" GREGORY DOWLING, Wall Street
Journal VENICE: "A dream of palaces and churches, of power and
money, dominion and decline, a paradise of beauty." By the author
of Roads to Santiago and Roads to Berlin With this treasury of his
time spent in Venice over a period of fifty-five years, Nooteboom
makes himself the indispensable companion for all lovers of "the
sailing, amphibious city", and for every new visitor. Because he is
a master storyteller with an inexhaustible curiosity, and always
with a suitcase of books (to which new discoveries are added), he
brings vividly and poetically to life not only the tumultuous
history of the Republic but along the way its doges, its villains,
its heroes, its magnificent painters, its architects, its scholars,
its skies, its canals and piazzas and alleyways, and on his
expeditions its "bronze voices of time". Those who know and love
this city and its literature will recognise Nooteboom - in Laura
Watkinson's fine translation - as the dazzling heir and companion
to Montaigne, Thomas Mann, Rilke, Ruskin, Proust, Brodsky, and
Donna Leon. His homage to Venice is a generous introduction,
learned and enchanting, and worthy of its magnificent subject. "His
writing is lyrical and densely textured. He is a poet of time and
memory" - COLIN THUBRON Translated from the Dutch by Laura
Watkinson
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In the Dutch Mountains (Paperback)
Cees Nooteboom; Introduction by Alberto Manguel; Translated by Adrienne Dixon
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A morose provincial inspector of roads in Aragon settles down to
write the fable of the Snow Queen. The Netherlands has now been
stretched into a vast country with Northern flatlands and hazardous
Alpine ranges in the south. Kai and Lucia are circus illusionists,
and when Kai is kidnapped, Lucia must rescue him from the Snow
Queen's palace. In the Dutch Mountains is an elegantly constructed
story within a story, laced with the wit that characterises the
work of this outstanding European writer.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MITCHELL One morning Herman Mussert
wakes up in a hotel room in Lisbon, where twenty years previously
he slept with another man's wife. Yet he is quite certain that the
night before he went to sleep as normal in his house in Amsterdam.
And so Herman begins a physical journey and a metaphysical
adventure, which will re-route him via past loves, through the
pangs and pleasures of memory, and to the very heart of that
crucial question: 'who am I?'.
The Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom has had a long love affair with Spain, a country where he has lived and worked part of each year for several decades. Derived from studies and sketches made between 1979 and 1992, Roads to Santiago is his many-faceted pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, taking in countless digressions through ten centuries of Spain’s history – its politics, its architecture, its landscape and its people. His scholarly curiosity leads him to unravel countless mysteries of the country and to unfold the more obscure riches of Spain. The harvest of so much learning and a long immersion in Spain’s dramatic past and its lively present is a magnificent book. In Roads to Santiago Cees Nooteboom unlocks doors to a Spain we hardly know and which he has discovered through an obsession that has lasted forty years. It is a gracefully written and thought-provoking study of a fascinating land.
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All Souls' Day (Paperback)
Cees Nooteboom; Translated by Susan Massotty
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"An outstanding addition to an impressive oeuvre" Times Literary
Supplement Arthur Daane, a documentary film-maker and inveterate
globetrotter, wanders the streets of Berlin, a city whose recent
past provides the perfect backdrop for his reflections on life and
the universe as he collects images for his latest project - a film
that will show the world through his eyes. With his circle of
friends - a philosopher, a sculptor and a physicist - Daane
discusses everything from history to metaphysics and the meaning of
our contemporary existence, often over a hearty meal. Then, one
cold winter's day, Daane meets the history student Elik Oranje and
his world is turned upside down. And when she unexpectedly leaves
the city for Spain, Daane is compelled to follow. All Souls' Day is
an elegiac love story, a poignant and affecting tale in which the
city of Berlin plays a prominent role, by one of Europe's major
contemporary writers. Translated from the Dutch by Susan Massotty
"Displays with admirable lucidity the workings of a humane,
civilized, and consistently interesting mind" Kirkus Reviews "One
of the most remarkable writers of our time" ALBERTO MANGUEL
Cees Nooteboom is best known in the English-speaking world for his
acclaimed novels, essays, and travel writing; however, Nooteboom
has always seen himself first and foremost as a poet. He has said,
"without poetry my life would be unthinkable." Light Everywhere is
a collection of poems, selected by Nooteboom himself from more than
a dozen Dutch books. The poems are presented in reverse
chronological order, reflecting the poet's contemporary perspective
on the productivity of more than half a century. The anthology
covers his poetic output up to 2013, with an emphasis on his more
recent work. New translations of older poems are crafted by
award-winning translator David Colmer, lending a consistent voice
to the whole collection. When Nooteboom began writing poetry in the
Netherlands in 1956, he was considered an outcast for not abiding
by the conventional experimental style popular at the time. Instead
he took to learning from poets abroad, translating work by Wallace
Stevens, Eugenio Montale, and Pablo Neruda. Nooteboom's work is
lucid and mysterious, evocative and elusive, and it is fitting that
the collection begins and ends with poems about travel, moving back
in time from an elderly man's entanglement and resignation to the
detachment and harsh light of youth and everything in between.
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Rituals (Paperback)
Cees Nooteboom; Introduction by A.S. Byatt; Translated by Adrienne Dixon
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In Rituals, Amsterdam of the fifties, sixties and seventies is
viewed from the perspective of the capricious Inni Wintrop. An
unintentional suicide survivor, the unexpected gift of life
returned lends him the curiousity, and impartiality, to survey
others' lives and rountines. Inni's opposite, the one-eyed downhill
skier Arnold Taads measures his life by the clock, while his
disowned son Philip follows Japanese rituals which themselves seem
to render his existence meaningless. A novel for those who seek to
unravel our mysterious, apparently directionless lives...
I had been looking for someone to write to for a long time, but how
does a man write letters to a god? From his Mediterranean garden on
the island of Menorca, Cees Nooteboom writes to the
trident-wielding deity, Poseidon, initiating a dialogue not only
with the past, as Alberto Manguel observes in his Preface, but with
an entire world that seemed lost for ever. Offering a seductive
interweaving of keen observation and the fruits of a vast
knowledge, Nooteboom explores questions of human existence through
the minutiae of the living world around him, and marvels at the
secrets of the deep. He recalls figures in history, places he has
travelled to, objets trouves, works of art and literature, and
takes a fresh look at the ancient myths. At once playful and
poignant, beautiful and bizarre, Nooteboom's Letters to Poseidon
are couched in the glittering prose of one of Europe's outstanding
stylists.
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