Beyond Sleep by Hermans Wf
A classic of post-war European literature, this is the tale of a man at the limits of physical and mental endurance beyond the end of the civilised world. It is about a Dutch geologist Alfred Issendorf who, haunted by the ghost of his scientist father, hopes to win fame by being the first to identify craters in the landscape made by meteorites.
"A masterpiece of world literature" Die Welt "A Kafka and Celine-inspired novel, which mixes..the black Romanticism of the 19th-century and the cold, laconic thriller art of the 20th-century" Frankfurter Allgemeine "Hermans is one of the most important European authors of the second half of the twentieth century" -- Cees Nooteboom
Willem Frederik Hermans was born in Amsterdam in 1921 and studied physical geography before becoming a lecturer at Groningen University. Disaffected with academia and his native country, he took up residence in Paris in 1973. A champion of unadorned style, he is the author of numerous novels, essays, plays and poems, and is considered one of the greatest post-war European writers. His war novel The Dark Room of Damocles will be published by Harvill Secker in 2007. He died in 1995.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781843432050 |
| ISBN 10 | 1843432056 |
| Title | Beyond Sleep |
| Author | Hermans W F |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2006-07-06 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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