Willem Frederik Hermans

Beyond Sleep

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The young Dutch geologist Alfred Issendorf is determined to win fame for making a great discovery. To this end he joins a small geological expedition, which travels to the far North of Norway, where he hopes to prove a series of craters were caused by meteorites, but ultimately realizes he's more likely to drown in a fjord or be eaten by parasites. Unable to procure crucial aerial photographs, and beset by mosquitoes and insomnia in his freezing leaky tent, Alfred becomes increasingly desperate and paranoid. Haunted by the ghost of his scientist father, unable to escape the looming influence of his mother, and anxious to complete the thesis t… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4683-0375-9
EAN: 9781468303759
Produktnummer: 29832256
Verlag: Abrams
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 320 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'143 KB

Über den Autor

W.F. Hermans (1921-1995) is considered one of the most important Western European authors to emerge from the postwar period. He wrote novels, short stories, essays, and philosophical and scientific works. In 1958 he was appointed as a lecturer in physical geography at Groningen University before settling in Paris. He wrote Beyond Sleep in 1966.