About the Book: Self-Portrait of an Other: Dreams of the Island and the Old City
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 Nootebooms personal
reflections —his arsenal of memories, dreams, fantasies, landscapes, stories and
nightmares— and presents a set of prose poems that complements and echoes
Neumanns work. Full of