Beyond Sleep

Informationen zum Autor 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: W F Hermans, W.F. Hermans
• Assisted by: Ina Rilke-Mulder (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvill Secker
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2006
• EAN: 9781843432050
• ISBN: 978-1-84343-205-0
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 225 mm x 30 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature