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Book Review
UNIVERSITY PRESSES; IN THE CLUTCHES OF THE SNOW QUEEN
1987
Overview
While Tiburon keeps up with current fiction, he isn't fond of novels that imitate reality; as he can't possibly know what reality is, he has no desire to copy it. Cultural codes, as well as metaphysical speculations fascinate him. Most of all, Tiburon loves dictionaries. Throughout his tale, our speculative surveyor takes us on side-trips into comparative philology - analyzing the differences in North and South, Dutch and Spanish words, or tracing etymologies - the word ''fairy'' to ''fatum'' (''fate''). Such digressions into semiology are typical in allegorical fiction (compare the chapter on the whiteness of the whale in ''Moby-Dick''). Also typical is the active presence of the tale-teller; ''The Scarlet Letter'' opens with an essay, ''The Custom House,'' that is a third as long as the entire text of ''In the Dutch Mountains,'' and is told by a ''Surveyor of Customs,'' who may in fact be the inspiration for Mr. [Cees Nooteboom]'s surveyor of roads.
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New York Times Company
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