Original version

BBC World Service Europe and the Middle East

World Book Club

Podcasts

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media

The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel.

No Master Brand

BBC World Service

BBC World Service Online

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa Schedule

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa

BBC World Service West and Central Africa Schedule

BBC World Service West and Central Africa

BBC World Service East Asia

BBC World Service South Asia

BBC World Service Australasia

BBC World Service schedule for American satellite radio and the Caribbean

BBC World Service Americas and the Caribbean

The BBC's international radio station (B2B)

BBC World Service US Public Radio

World Book Club: Cees Nooteboom - The Following Story

Discussion & Talk

Cees Nooteboom

06/02/2016 GMT

Cees Nooteboom - The Following Story

BBC World Service - World Book Club, Cees Nooteboom - The Following Story

Multiple award-winning Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom on his novel The Following Story

Multiple award-winning Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom on his novel The Following Story.

This quixotic ‘novel of ideas’ blends philosophical reflection with the haunting tale of Herman Mussert, a retired, outmoded ancient language teacher preoccupied with Classical antiquity. After falling asleep one evening in Amsterdam, he mysteriously wakes the next morning in a hotel room in Lisbon where he slept with another man’s wife twenty years earlier. From here Mussert embarks on an enigmatic journey of the mind, contemplating passion,  death, wisdom and disillusionment. Presented by Harriet Gilbert.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

World Book Club

Cees Nooteboom - The Following Story

Genres

Formats

Brand

BBC World Service Europe and the Middle East

About BBC World Service