re-cover nr.75

Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell

This picture was taken in Paris in 2008.

George Orwell is the pen name of the late English author Eric Arthur Blair.
Down and Out in Paris and London was first published in 1933.

"You thought it would be quite simple; it is extraordinarily complicated. You thought it would be terrible; it is merely squalid and boring. It is the peculiar lowness of poverty that you discover first; the shifts that it puts you to, the complicated meanness, the crust-wiping."

re-cover nr.74

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog - Dylan Thomas

This drawing was made in 2006, in Amsterdam.

Dylan Thomas was a Welsh poet, short-story writer and script writer for film and radio.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog was first published in 1940. The title refers to James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

"Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

re-cover nr.73

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

This picture is a damaged polaroid.
Anthony Burgess is the pseudonym of Jonh Burgess Wilson, a late English author, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic.A Clockwork Orange was first published in 1962.
Vinyl is an early adaptation of the novel by Andy Warhol in 1965, starring Gerard Malanga, Edie Sedgwick and Ondine, among others.
A Clockwork Orange has been also adapted for cinema by Stanley Kubrick in 1971, starring Malcolm McDowell.

"To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art."

"The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it."