re-cover nr.101

Solaris - Stanislaw Lem

This picture was taken in Amsterdam in June, 2010. It was shot inside the Gashouder at the Westergasfabriek, during the Holland Festival. The white open pavilion, signed by Zaha Hadid, was specially designed to house J.S. Bach’s concerts.
Stanislaw Lem was a Polish writer.Solaris was first published in 1961.

The Sci-Fi novel was adapted to the cinema by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972, and by Steven Soderbergh in 2002.

re-cover nr.100

Les Enfants Terribles - Jean Cocteau

This picture was taken in Geneve in 2009.

Jean Cocteau was a French writer, artist and filmmaker.
Les Enfants Terribles (The Holy Terrors, English translation) was first published in 1929.
The novel was made into a film of the same name, a collaboration between Cocteau and director Jean-Pierre Melville, in 1950.
Les Enfants Terribles is also the third installment of the Opera trigoly by Philip Glass, based on Cocteau' s works.

"What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.
Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn."