by Cees Nooteboom · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140070798
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«Rituals» is the novel by Cees Nooteboom, published by Penguin in paperback (160 pages, in English).
The protagonist, Inni Wintrop, a man without ties who wanders through Amsterdam between the stock exchange, art and love, sees his life altered when he crosses paths with two men who embody order and discipline. The novel reflects on the human need to give meaning to chaos through personal rituals.
English translation by Adrienne Dixon of the original Dutch novel «Rituelen» (1980), in the King Penguin series. 1985 edition. The novel received the Pegasus Prize for Literature in 1983.
For readers of literary fiction interested in twentieth-century Dutch literature and novels with a philosophical tone.
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.
