Authors photos

[Bubba]

Here, from a writer I admire, is an interesting bit about author pictures:

"Because of a publisher who got the picture on the back cover wrong, I read Balzac's works for years thinking he had Amiel's face, that is, a long, gaunt, elegant, sickly, and metaphysical face. Only later, when I discovered Balzac's true face, did his work take on new meaning and reveal itself to me. Every writer has the face of his work. So I sometimes amuse myself by thinking how I would read Victor Hugo's works if he had had Baudelaire's face, or Vallejo's work if he had looked like Neruda. But it's obvious Vallejo wouldn't have written Poemas humanos if he had had Neruda's face."

[Diotima]

Paul Auster

[Igu Soni]

Originally Posted by Diotima

Paul Auster

Here's one photo which actually interests me in this guy's books. He is charming, yet suspicious.

[learna]

Some Brodsky's photos:

[Diotima]

Colette

[Diotima]

Colette

[pesahson]

Originally Posted by learna

Some Brodsky's photos:

The moment I saw that thread I thougt about posting Brodsky's photos but I see that you were first. But I still can't make myself not do it:P

[learna]

Originally Posted by pesahson

The moment I saw that thread I thougt about posting Brodsky's photos but I see that you were first. But I still can't make myself not do it:P

Interesting photos, especially the last one in which Brodsky shows his books: Less than One and - if I am not mistaken - A Part of Speech. This photo looks like ... a dialogue or - at least - a monologue.

[pesahson]

Originally Posted by learna

Interesting photos, especially the last one in which Brodsky shows his books: Less than One and - if I am not mistaken - A Part of Speech. This photo looks like ... a dialogue or - at least - a monologue.

Less then one is my favorite set of essays of all time!