Great notice of Ina Rilke's translation of the Dutch classic Beyond Sleep, just out from The Overlook Press in Bookforum:
"So the first thing to say about Willem Frederik Hermans’s Nooit meer slapen (Beyond Sleep) is that forty-one years of being lodged in the Dutch canon have done it no harm at all; it’s as bright and black as anything contemporary. It has the energy and ruthlessness of farce and a terrifying deadpan style, and it ends in appalling catastrophe. What’s more, it is entirely unfamiliar."
And, if I do say so myself, the Bookforum redesign looks amazing.
