Nooit meer slapen (novel)

Nooit meer slapen (1966) is a novel by Willem Frederik Hermans which appear shortly after was regarded widely as a masterpiece. [1]  the Act concerns a geological expedition to meteorites in Norwegian Lapland (Finnmark), an inhospitable area that is so not the summer Northern Sun is going down.



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[hide] *Sources 1  ==Sources[ Edit] == ===Hermans in Sweden[ Edit] === In July-August 1960 lived in the nineteenth International Geographical Congress Hermans in Stockholm and preceding in Abisko (Northern Sweden) a geographical symposium on ' glacial morphology and periglacial processes '. [2] ==Publication History[ Edit] == In February 1966 appeared the first edition of the novel at uitgeverij De Bezige Bij as literary Giants pocket 173 with a folder of Leendert Dust mountains, with a circulation of 19,400 paperbound and 490 bound copies (JS 229).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" len="177" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]  already the second edition of June that year contains variants (JS 230). Starting from the Sixth Edition (1969, JS 234) substance used for the cover photograph by Haji mountains, on which a large stone in a barren landscape and a traveller with Backpack can be seen. The eleventh pressure (JS 239), published July 1973, is in many places reviewed. In the fifteenth, expanded edition (1979, JS 244) brought the author many more changes. Also changed the cover, and by the author-made picture of smeltijs caused by a brook with pebbles was used. After this pressure brought the author no major revisions to more. Over the life of the author obtained the roman press 25 (JS 229-253). ==Content<span class="mw-editsection" len="338" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Read warning: text below contains details about the content and/or the end of the story.<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Nooit meer slapen follows the 25-year-old geology student Alfred Issendorf on an expedition to Norwegian Lapland (Finnmark) for his PhD research. Purpose of the research is to the hypothesis of his supervisor, professor Sibbelee, to prove, that involves the round holes that can be found anywhere on the spot in the soil, caused by meteorite impacts.
 * 1.1 Hermans in Sweden
 * 2 publication history
 * 3 Content
 * 4 typing
 * 5 Interpretation
 * 5.1 Time
 * 5.2 Motives
 * 5.3 the three stages in the development of humanity
 * 5.4 Tell technique
 * 6 Vijverberg Prize
 * Rating 7
 * <span class="tocnumber" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none;">8 <span style="background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">  <span class="toctext" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none;">Trivia

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">We meet Alfred on way to his stop in Oslo, where he at the very reputable professor Nummedal, a close friend of his promoter, the necessary aerial photo's of the area pick up. Alfred not to doubt the success of his research. With the subsequent glossy promotion will he act in the footsteps of his father, a successful biologist who died in an expedition.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In Oslo, however, awaits him a setback: Nummedal is not aware of his coming and also has no air photos. For air photos is the place to be at the geological survey, in Trondheim. Though takes the professor Alfred along on tour along local geological phenomena, and also he must absolutely taste the Norwegian specialty gravlaks . Alfred verbijt itself-he anxious to get started, but he may be rude to his host. The geological phenomena have nothing to do with his research and the gravlaks is sold out. Moreover, Nummedal slip that he does not understand what the Dutch have in Geology: Netherlands is flat, what can you learn about geology there now?

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">At the geological survey shows one in the middle of a move to a brand new building. There must be somewhere air photos are stored, but everyone is busy with the move, and no one could say what air pictures that can be found. Are to be sent by professor Nummedal communication makes no impression: Nummedal is an old man who no longer being taken seriously. Alfred travels without air photos to the forwarding area.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">There adds expeditiegenoten, three Norwegian joined his fellow PhD students, of whom he one, Arne, already know from an earlier expedition. The expedition is a long walk on the Tundra, a Lapland Heath and marshy area with great differences in altitude. Alfred notes that he can track his colleagues hardly due to lack of training, and the ever-present mosquitoes keep him from sleep. Without air photos he can not even find the holes he must investigate. He hears of his research topic, as Arne scares: that is that idiotic hypothesis where Sibbelee for twenty years the laughingstock of Geology with it! Now feeling Alfred themselves altogether ridiculous.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Then he sees that one of the others, Mikkelsen, the "undetectable" air photos just with him. How is that possible? Would try to have his research sometimes purposely Nummedal thwart? Mikkelsen let him see the aerial photos, and thereupon sees Alfred immediately that there is no indication for meteorite impacts. He can give up.

<p lang="en" len="157" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">He realizes that interests him are really not-geologist: it's not his own dream, but those of his mother, which he abhors.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The company splits itself; Alfred goes with Arne further, but then he becomes, by his own wisdom about the route to follow, also lost Arne. His compass falls into a crack. Now he has nothing more: he does not know where he is, he does not know where he should go, he comes forward, and his food is hardly on. but he does have a goal: Arne find. Then he notices that he finally find its way, to get ahead, and stay alive, by fish to catch and eat raw. His self confidence returns. And he finds Arne. But who is dead, slipped on a stone.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Alfred runs back to civilization, where he completely exhausted arrives, to Arne pick-up. In the bus back he sees a Flash of light and hear a hard blow: the impact of a meteorite! He has no interest in it.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">At home his mother has a surprise for him: a set of cufflinks made from a severed meteorite. His father had they want to give him for his seventh birthday, his mother had kept them for Alfreds promotion. But, she says, your father finds it fixed well if you they are already getting. Beautiful, think Alfred, but no evidence for the hypothesis. ==Typing<span class="mw-editsection" len="340" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Nooit meer slapen is an extraordinary novel in the works of Hakim because the content of this book is the most related with his scientific work and even based on two scientific excursions, namely to Northern Norway to Sweden (1960) and North (1961). According to Haasse is the main character Alfred Issendorf to village ' and ' therefore ' not equal to the Wiles and layers of nature '.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" len="177" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [4]  he must endure many hardships and gets hardly hold on its Norwegian colleagues and the inhospitable natural environment. The humiliating slot of this novel can be seen as typical of Hermans ' oeuvre. Also fits the work on a deeper level within the general theme of Hermans ' work: in the end the man not able to know the world is real. ==Interpretation<span class="mw-editsection" len="345" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Time<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The novel plays in the summer of 1965: Alfreds father is shortly after July 1947 died and when Alfred was seven years old. Alfred is so born in 1940 and at the time of the expedition 25 years old. The time course in the novel is emphasized because Alfred often looks at his watch and also further excessive of the time conscious. Since the Sun in the area undergoes, the watch is not the only reference point and if that shorted out hits, Alfred has no awareness, but also don't care, more time.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" len="177" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [5]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The told time is about three weeks, from the visit to Nummedal on 15 July to his arrival in family circle around 5 August. All the way to determine this is not exact, because the period without holes and watch Alfreds report provides a reasonable provision does not make it possible, for the reader nor for Alfred itself. ===Motives<span class="mw-editsection" len="340" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">A network of connected motives allow the solidity and the novel details of functionality. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" len="177" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6]  the inventory is as follows:

===The three stages in the development of humanity<span class="mw-editsection" len="378" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Chapter 7 contains an important passage for the psychological interpretation of the novel; Alfreds theory about the three stages in which to divide the development of humanity is: <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Alfred begins the third stage and reaches the second if he lose his camera than Arne, just would. There is again talk of a symmetrical relationship between the I and the self. When he also lost his compass and hence the mirror, he finds himself in the first stage: his circumstances are primitive as those of the first people he meets for the first time, his less and in harmony with nature. Now he bathed in ' water ' where at the beginning the shower full of kindness ' a stiff brush of water ' was.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" len="177" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [8] ===Tell Technique<span class="mw-editsection" len="347" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Alfred does report from moment to moment, is strong in itself concentrated and continuous ' inspects itself, in the context of his quest for who he is and can be. Its geological research is in fact self-enquiry '.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" len="177" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [9]  Alfred looks so to speak constantly in the mirror, an attitude that an equivalent takes place in the narrative technique of the novel: first person, present tense. The simultaneity of experienced and tell ' exhibits a striking analogy to the situation in which someone watching his mirror image. '<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" len="179" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [10]  Also Hermans ' next publication, the collection of short stories, a prodigy or a total loss (1967) counts only works with a person and tell technique in which the I-present indicative are combined. The purpose of this verb tense, however, is not the same. The possibilities of a tell situation in the first person singular, present, do Hajj in the sixties intrigue: apart from the novel and the bundle is no other narrative prose from this period, while the said combination is not listed in the work from earlier years.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" len="179" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [11] ==Vijverberg Prize<span class="mw-editsection" len="348" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In March 1967, the Jan Campert Foundation Hakim the Vijverberg price of NLG 2500 for Nooit meer slapen. Hakim responded by letter: ==Rating<span class="mw-editsection" len="343" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Upon publication in 1966 from some besprekers criticism exerted on the structure of the novel. They saw the death of Arne for the climax of the novel and the sequel regarded as superfluous. However, after some years in the novel was widely regarded as a masterpiece. The Swedish translation (1977) prompted the critic Rolf Yrlid to ask themselves or the Nobel Prize in literature would go to Netherlands. The German translation (1982) was by critic Joseph Quack described as not only full of ' sparkling observations ', but ' for everything an exciting story '.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" len="179" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [13] ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Science: because the novel describes a scientific expedition, the science is a regular topic of discussion of the characters. There are names like Heiskanen (Geologist), Sauerbruck (surgeon), Buys Ballot, Galilei ,Christiaan Huygens.
 * Explorers: Antarctic pioneers called Columbus, Scott and Amundsen, Stanley and Livingstone, Thor Heyerdahl. Oftedahl States that geologists are the last remaining explorers. Alfred itself is planning to do a startling discovery during his trip.
 * Alchemy: according to deny the true Nummedal geologist are origin of gold digger never at all. Alfred ponders that he ' tries to find the philosopher's stone ".
 * Freemasonry: symbols of these are architectural and architectural objects such as pyramids, cathedrals, hammer, passer, tape measure.
 * Sagas: passers are compared with figures from the Edda by Snorre Sturlason. See also the topic giants.
 * Classical mythology: Aeneas and Dido, Alfreds mother's name is Aglaia, in Greek mythology, the mother of a King. Also considering Alfred the sad fate of a teacher Greek, which affects only a few pupils with actual interest.
 * Psychoanalysis and self-image (mirror): Qvigstad has an inverted Oedipus complex, he's only potent at black women, according to him because he sees his mother in white women. The American tourist Wilma explains Alfred that men find zippers in women exciting because that appeals to their repressed homosexuality.
 * mirror: Alfred sees in the folding glasses Nummedal's four mirrors, while the Institute is built entirely of Oftedahl's mirror glass. He also continued his compass to look in the mirrors thereof.
 * Religion: Alfred finds his sister Eva stupid because she is faithful, Arne is talking about a book titled the face of God after Auschwitz, there is talk of buildings with a religious function (megaliths, cathedrals, pyramids), Arne muses on a mosquito hereafter with on a high throne over the foot-and-mouth disease virus that everything's boss, Alfred considering that black Americans are fighting for equal rights under the leadership of a pastor, representative of the religion that the tribulation just legitimizes. In talks with a number of Qvigstad and Mikkelsen be creation myths discussed.
 * Fish: salmon gravlaks, who buried some time, it would be a death symbol, Hvalbiff shows whales meat to mean, only hundreds of fish in his Alfred absorbs just once.
 * Art: Science and art are repeatedly compared to each other; reviewers of novels, such as the mother of Alfred, be compared with crooks; as a little boy wanted to be Alfred flutist.
 * Stone: obviously references to meteorites, but also to the stone age with hunnebedbouwers; men with the word stone in their name: Wittgenstein, Livingstone and Flintstone, at the last also plays the stone age with it; Arne tells about the Norwegian habit a track with Rhinestones highlight.
 * Giants: the landscape is described as if it were arranged by Giants was created. So it is a kind of Gorge Amphitheatre vor giants, is the net or a huge hand the vegetation of the mountain has a huge spider web is swept off and Alfreds FishNet exactly.
 * A small country: Netherlands and Norway about repeated comparison between the disadvantage to be small.
 * Language: English takes a special place, because the Norwegians in that language against Alfred focus. Also he tries on the way to Norway to help someone who is trying to learn English from a book. Not heard of the Norwegian leads to uncertainty and mistrust at Alfred, that not everything can follow what his fellow travelers say to each other.
 * Nooit meer slapen in 2007 as number 6 was included in the list of best Dutch books of all time;
 * Appeared in the 2010 audio version of Nooit meer slapen is read out by Ruprecht Hermans.
 * On september 13, 2013 De Bezige Bij publishing house made known to have sold the film rights.