Antwerp - Roberto Bolano Cornelis Johannes Pouw

Antwerp - Roberto Bolano Cornelis Johannes PouwAmidst the seedy hotels and deserted campsites of the Costa Brava, someone has gone missing. A detective sets out to find them. They search among the hapless girls, failed poets, and shifty policemen that populate this dream world but every door opens onto a nightmare. An experimental novella, spliced together in vignettes, Antwerp is Roberto Bolaos first work of fiction. A personal declaration of the power of literature, to read it is to be present

poëtisch distillaat

Met speelse charme en indringende intelligentie vertelt hij over Friedrich Nietzsches inzinking in Turijn

but his writing transforms such degradations into an inverted moral code

to be worthy of another person

In zeven essays met prachtige natuurbeschrijvingen tekent Sønderby sfeervolle beelden van zijn zomerse verblijf op Groenland

Voortgedreven door een diepe behoefte om relaties met dierbaren te beschermen

With dazzling erudition

Teleurgesteld in Darnley

thinkers and ordinary readers for almost two thousand years

Langzaamaan beseft de keizer echter dat hem fictieve plaatsen worden beschreven

It was not midnight

a destitute and desperate former student