re-cover nr.10

Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

This picture was taken in 2008, at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.

Brideshead Revisited is a novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945. The book was adapted to a TV series of the same name in 1981.

re-cover nr.9

Claudine à Paris - Colette

This photo was taken in Paris in 2008, outside Centre Georges Pompidou.

Colette was the pen name of the French novelist Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. Her first books, the Claudine series, were first published between 1900 and 1903, under the pen name of her husband, "Willy".

re-cover nr.8

Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett

These pictures were taken in Amsterdam in 2008.

Waiting for Godot is a theatre play by Irish writer Samuel Beckett. The play was originally written in French (En attendant Godot) in 1948/49, and premiered in 1953.

re-cover nr.7

Kongres Futurologiczny - Stanislaw Lem

This photo was taken in 2008 in Paris, in the congress room of the French Communist Party Headquarters, designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in 1972.

The Futurological Congress (English translation), is a science fiction novel by the Polish writer Stanislaw Lem, first published in its original version in 1971.

re-cover nr.6

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick

This picture was taken in 2006, in the GWL-terrein in Amsterdam.

Philip K. Dick was an American science fiction writer. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was first published in 1968. The novel was adapted to film by Ridley Scott in 1982, under the name Blade Runner.

re-cover nr.5

Les Fleurs du Mal - Charles Baudelaire

This is an old postcard purchased at the Waterloo flee market in Amsterdam.

Baudelaire was a French poet. This bundle of poems was first published in France in 1857. The English title is The Flowers of Evil.

re-cover nr.4

Une Saison en Enfer - Jean-Arthur Rimbaud

This is a photographic slide taken in Zuerich in 1998.

Jean-Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet. We "re-covered" the original French edition, published in 1873. The first english translation (A season in Hell) didn't appear before 1966.

re-cover nr.3

Sexual Politics - Kate Millett
 
We took this picture in 2008, in the Yayoi Kusama's exhibition "Mirrored Years" at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam. The photo is a detail of "Red Stripes" from 1965.

Kate Millett is an American feminist writer and activist. Sexual Politics was first published in 1970.

re-cover nr.2

Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

This photo (of a Róisín Murphy's music video - Movie Star) was taken in 2008, from the television screen.
 
Madame Bovary is a novel by the late French writer Gustave Flaubert. The novel was first serialized in La Revue de Paris between October and December of 1856. It was first published in book form in France in 1857.