Ο κόσμος θα θυμάται πάντα τον Ντέιβιντ Μπάουι ως μια δημιουργική φιγούρα στον κόσμο της μουσικής, της μόδας και του κινηματογράφου, και ως μια θρυλική εικόνα της ποπ κουλτούρας. Ο Μπάουι όμως ήταν και ένας αδηφάγος αναγνώστης που πολύ συχνά διάβαζε ένα βιβλίο την ημέρα.
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Οι 100 αγαπημένες ταινίες του Ακίρα Κουροσάβα
Το 2013, ως μέρος της έκθεσης "David Bowie Is" της Art Gallery του Οντάριο, οι επιμελητές Geoffrey Marsh και Victoria Broackes συνέταξαν έναν κατάλογο με τα 100 αγαπημένα βιβλία του Μπάουι, στην οποία υπάρχουν από πρωτοποριακά έργα μέχρι κλασικά και σύγχρονα μυθιστορήματα.
Ακολουθεί η πλήρης λίστα των 100 αγαπημένων βιβλίων του.
Interviews With Francis Bacon, David Sylvester
Billy Liar, Keith Waterhouse
Room At The Top, John Braine
On Having No Head, Douglass Harding
Kafka Was The Rage, Anatole Broyard
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
City Of Night, John Rechy
The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
The Iliad, Homer
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
Tadanori Yokoo, Tadanori Yokoo
Berlin Alexanderplatz, Alfred Döblin
Inside The Whale And Other Essays, George Orwell
Mr. Norris Changes Trains, Christopher Isherwood
Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art, James A. Hall
David Bomberg, Richard Cork
Blast, Wyndham Lewis
Passing, Nella Larsen
Beyond The Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective, Arthur C. Danto
The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes
In Bluebeard’s Castle, George Steiner
Hawksmoor, Peter Ackroyd
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness, R. D. Laing
The Stranger, Albert Camus
Infants Of The Spring, Wallace Thurman
The Quest For Christa T, Christa Wolf
The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin
Nights At The Circus, Angela Carter
The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Herzog, Saul Bellow
Puckoon, Spike Milligan
Black Boy, Richard Wright
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea, Yukio Mishima
Darkness At Noon, Arthur Koestler
The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot
McTeague, Frank Norris
Money, Martin Amis
The Outsider, Colin Wilson
Strange People, Frank Edwards
English Journey, J.B. Priestley
A Confederacy Of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
The Day Of The Locust, Nathanael West
1984, George Orwell
The Life And Times Of Little Richard, Charles White
Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock, Nik Cohn
Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music, Greil Marcus
Beano (comic, ’50s)
Raw (comic, ’80s)
White Noise, Don DeLillo
Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm And Blues And The Southern Dream Of Freedom, Peter Guralnick
Silence: Lectures And Writing, John Cage
Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews edited, Malcolm Cowley
The Sound Of The City: The Rise Of Rock And Roll, Charlie Gillett
Octobriana And The Russian Underground, Petr Sadecky
The Street, Ann Petry
Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon
Last Exit To Brooklyn, Hubert Selby, Jr.
A People’s History Of The United States, Howard Zinn
The Age Of American Unreason, Susan Jacoby
Metropolitan Life, Fran Lebowitz
The Coast Of Utopia, Tom Stoppard
The Bridge, Hart Crane
All The Emperor’s Horses, David Kidd
Fingersmith, Sarah Waters
Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess
The 42nd Parallel, John Dos Passos
Tales Of Beatnik Glory, Ed Sanders
The Bird Artist, Howard Norman
Nowhere To Run: The Story Of Soul Music, Gerri Hirshey
Before The Deluge, Otto Friedrich
Sexual Personae: Art And Decadence From Nefertiti To Emily Dickinson, Camille Paglia
The American Way Of Death, Jessica Mitford
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D. H. Lawrence
Teenage, Jon Savage
Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh
The Hidden Persuaders, Vance Packard
The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
Viz (comic magazine, early ’80s)
Private Eye (satirical magazine, ’60s – ’80s)
Selected Poems, Frank O’Hara
The Trial Of Henry Kissinger, Christopher Hitchens
Flaubert’s Parrot, Julian Barnes
Le Chants de Maldordor, Comte de Lautréamont
On The Road, Jack Kerouac
Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder, Lawrence Weschler
Zanoni, Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Transcendental Magic: Its Doctine and Ritual, Éliphas Lévi
The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels
The Leopard, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Inferno, Dante Alighieri
A Grave for a Dolphin, Alberto Denti di Pirajno
The Insult, Rupert Thomson
In Between the Sheets, Ian McEwan
A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1890-1924, Orlando Figes
Journey Into the Whirlwind, Eugenia Ginzburg
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