All Souls Day. (Brief Reviews).(Book Review)

From: Chicago Review | Date: December 22, 2002| Author: Gibbons, James | Copyright information

Cees Nooteboom, All Souls Day. Translated by Susan Massotty. New York: Harcourt, 2001. 352pp. $25. ISBN 0-15-100566-4

All Souls Day, first published in Holland in 1998 and the latest of Cees Nooteboom's novels to be translated into English, takes a familiar line from the close of The Great Gatsby as an epigraph: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne ceaselessly into the past." Fitzgerald's lapidary melancholy sets the tone of the novel that follows. In it, the...

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