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.
"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.)
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4 Comments:
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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