John Minihan's rare glimpse inside the writer's Paris apartment
A photograph of Samuel Beckett's bookshelves in the study of his apartment at the Boulevard St Jacques in Paris. Click above to enlarge. Photograph taken by John Minihan.
23.10.09
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Wonderful!
I love how modern bookshelves look! The antique and massive ones look good too, but these are exactly my style!
"Behind him, as he sat at his dark green desk, was a row of shelves holding a few mementoes: on one shelf there was a sandstone mask of a face with its tongue sticking out (sent to him by the poet, Nick Rawson) and a small, square, brass - framed clock; on another there was a small sculpted fi gure with its head bent down between
its knees like Dante’s Belacqua; below that again was a very large watch, standing upright on a stand." (From "A Writer's Homes - A Writer's Life" by James Knowlson in "A Companion to Samuel Beckett" edited by S. E. Gontarski.)
I think we can see them up there or am I wrong?
Fantastic! Thanks for that!
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