The foxes come at night

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Sinopse

Set in the cities and islands of the Mediterranean, and linked thematically, the eight stories in The Foxes Come At Night read more like a novel, a meditation on memory, life and death. Their protagonists collect and reconstruct fragments of lives lived intensely, and now lost, crystallized in memory or in the detail of a photograph. In 'Paula', the narrator evokes the mysterious, brief life of a woman he once loved; in 'Paula II', the same woman is aware of the man thinking of her. No longer a body, she is slowly fading into the distance, remembering the time they spent together, and his fear of the black night when the foxes appear. And yet the tone of these stories is far from pessimistic: it seems that death is nothing to be afraid of. Nooteboom is a superb stylist who observes the world with a combination of melancholy and astonishment. These stories are textured with humour, pathos and vast knowledge, the hallmarks of this outstanding and highly respected European writer.

Participantes

Autor: Cees Nooteboom

Autor

CEES NOOTEBOOM

Cees Nooteboom (1933, Haia, Holanda) é o escritor contemporâneo de maior destaque nos Países Baixos. Ensaísta, poeta e expoente da literatura de viagem, tem cinco obras publicadas no Brasil – os romances Rituais (1980), A seguinte história (1991) e Dia de finados (1998), além do livro de viagens Caminhos para Santiago (1992) e do Paraíso perdido (2004). Comparado a Jorge Luis Borges e J. M. Coetzee, cotado com freqüência para o Prêmio Nobel, Nooteboom tece uma prosa rica em experimentos lingüísticos, mas não abre mão do relato de vivências extremas nem da exploração da interioridade dos personagens.