by Cees Nooteboom · Suhrkamp Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783518458600
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«Der Umweg nach Santiago» is Cees Nooteboom's travel chronicle, published by Suhrkamp Verlag in 2007 in paperback (426 pages, in German).
The book gathers Cees Nooteboom's repeated journeys through Spain: he wants to go from Barcelona to Santiago de Compostela, but lets himself be diverted by names, words and monuments. History, art and literature interweave in a chronicle that turns the route into a meditation on the country and its landscape.
Original Dutch: «De omweg naar Santiago» (1992). Expanded German edition, translated by Helga van Beuningen, with photographs by Simone Sassen; Suhrkamp Taschenbuch 3860.
For those travelling through Spain or wanting to prepare a journey with a literary, historical and cultural eye.
Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria "Cees" Nooteboom was a Dutch novelist, poet and journalist. After the attention received by his novel Rituals, which won the Pegasus Prize, it was the first of his novels to be translated into an English-language edition, published in 1983 by Louisiana State University Press of the United States. LSU Press published his two earlier novels in English in the following years, as well as other works up until 1990. Harcourt and Grove Press have since published some of his works in English.
