JKR's Posed Bookshelf: Freud and Agatha Christie
Sydney
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Wed Jun 25 23:40:04 UTC 2003
No: HPFGUIDX 64004
Helplessly watching all the posts pouring past, and contemplating the
back of The Tome: UK Adult Edition. Like a Serious Grow-Up Book
should have, it features a black and white photo of the Author, with
an impressive rank of books behind her.
Unless she normally shelves her Agatha Christie paperbacks next to her
Freud, I'll bet those books have been posed for the shoot by the woman
herself, to reflect her influences. Here are the legible titles (for
my eyesight, anways):
-- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce. Perfect.
It's always been the only other example I can think of in English, of
what JKR's trying to do in terms of tracking child development
stylistically.
-- Nineteen Eighty Four (I'm pretty sure I recognize the spine, even
though you can only see the 'Nine'). Appropriate for the Umbrige reign!
-- Jane Austen's Letters. Goes without saying.
-- The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall. *blinks* Okay, lesbian
miserable childhood, but still, miserable childhood...
-- Adrian Mole, Sue Townsend. Firmer ground, diary of self-absorbed
adolescent.
-- I may be crazy, but I think a biography of Hitler.
-- "By the Sea" Haven't read it, but an amazon.co.uk reviewer
describes it as "two men tentatively explore the past and the old man
reveals information the young man could never have known, the pace
quickens until the past and the present merge and each of the men
discovers hidden truths and new strengths. This is passionate book of
clear vision, a book which recognizes harsh truths and still remains
compassionate." Sounds great-- and apropos.
-- A bunch of Agatha Christies. The Times just had a piece comparing
her to JKR, too.
-- a big book with "Freud" on the spine. A while ago this site had a
simply brilliant post on Freud, pipes, and CoS, ashamed to say I can't
recall the author (generally a lurker, so don't normally type out the
names...)
-- a couple of books on human anatomy. Erm, she's studying life
drawing? Or just coming up with particularily nasty curses?
There's several others, but I can't quite make them out. Little help?
Anyone with cutting-edge image-enhancement technology, or at least an
eye for book editions?
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