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| A Kafka and Céline-inspired novel, which mixes...the black Romanticism of the 19th-century and the cold, laconic thriller art of the 20th-century
Frankfurter Allgemeine
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A young Dutch geologist, Alfred Issendorf, is determined to win fame for making a great discovery. To this end he joins a small geological expedition to the far north of Norway where he hopes to be the first to identify craters made by meteorites in the landscape.
It is a harsh and deserted environment, way beyond civilisation, which brings out all the faultlines in the group of young men and in Alfred’s character. The tribulations mount: Alfred is unable to procure crucial aerial photographs, he falls on rocks, is soaked in a river, and is beset by mosquitoes and insomnia; the tent leaks appallingly. He is not a natural athlete, feeling incapable and superfluous to the group’s needs. Alfred becomes desperate and paranoid, suspecting the others are leagued in conspiracy against him.
Haunted by the ghost of his scientist father, unable to escape the looming influence of his mother, and anxious to complete the thesis that will make his name, Alfred’s preoccupations multiply in this wilderness. As, piece by piece, his equipment is lost or ruined and his thinking becomes ever more disjointed, he moves towards the final act of vanity which will trigger a catastrophe.
Sleep No More is a classic of post-war European literature; a gripping tale of a man at the limits of physical and mental endurance beyond the end of the civilised world.
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| A masterpiece of world literature
Die Welt
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| Hermans is one of the most important European authors of the second half of the twentieth century
Cees Nooteboom
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Harvill Secker • General & literary fiction • Previous
ISBN: 1843432056
Publication date: 06/07/2006 • 320 pages • Demy • EAN: 9781843432050 |
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