On Janne Floris' bookshelves, Manse Everard:
"...spied stuff by Dickens, Mark Twain, Thomas Mann, Tolkien. A shame that Dutch titles conveyed nothing to him." (p. 482)
Observations
(i) No two people will have exactly the same collection of books and many will have not a single book in common. We learn a lot about someone by knowing what books they read.
(ii) In Spain, I saw books for sale with familiar sf authors' names on the spines but they were in translation. However, my only interest was in ascertaining which titles had been translated.
(iii) I have googled Thomas Mann with interest, not having known that he wrote Death In Venice. The Magic Mountain is an evocative title with what sounds to me like an uninteresting plot.
As Everard sits and accepts coffee, we feel that this is a real scene.
4 comments:
Dutch and English are cousins -- I can make out most Dutch titles, though I don't speak the language.
Kaor, Paul!
I've read some of the works of all the authors listed by Manse, except those by Thomas Mann.
Ad astra! Sean
Mann seems to have been fixated on illnesses!
Paul: to be fair, illness was more common in Mann's lifetime.
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