533 Tage. Berichte von der Insel

One man, one island, the universe: When cosmopolitan Cees Nooteboom is on Menorca - long since no longer just his "summer island" - he stands with both feet firmly on the fertile ground, surrounded by palm trees, stubborn turtles and the beloved books in his garden studio. But his gaze reaches far beyond the horizon, awake and curious. Nooteboom looks with scepticism at a Europe that is threatening to fall apart; he looks with amazement at the total work of art David Bowie. But his enthusiasm is for space, from his patron saint, the constellation Orion, to the two Voyager space probes with their greetings to foreign civilisations in their luggage, travelling in space for almost 40 years and forgotten by everyone ( except NASA and me). Only a handful of elderly technicians still know how to operate the outdated software - the pensioners of space travel. 533 T.