Bohemian Writer
- By Dominique Hoffmann
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- 11 Jul, 2022
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Café Arco, Prague 2010
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.” (Franz Kafka)
zebras54 has been online for 20 years.
It started as a little website about books on my shelves, songs that I like and places that I've been. Using this format, I will give update you about my various projects.
I have been writing for the best part of my life. When I started out, ideas became a stories mostly for my own entertainment as I didn't envisage getting published back then. My stories were my own private world where I could retreat and daydream. This is also what I'm looking for when I read novels. I love getting immersed in places, walking beside a character who feels like a real companion.
I love objects that tell stories. The lovely old books in this photo from 2010 are displayed at Café Arco in Prague. This is a place where Franz Kafka met his literary friends. Visiting Prague in 2010 and 2014 brought me closer to this extraordinary writer. Franz Kafka inspired me to write, to find the axe that breaks the frozen sea inside me.
zebras54 has been online for 20 years.
It started as a little website about books on my shelves, songs that I like and places that I've been. Using this format, I will give update you about my various projects.
I have been writing for the best part of my life. When I started out, ideas became a stories mostly for my own entertainment as I didn't envisage getting published back then. My stories were my own private world where I could retreat and daydream. This is also what I'm looking for when I read novels. I love getting immersed in places, walking beside a character who feels like a real companion.
I love objects that tell stories. The lovely old books in this photo from 2010 are displayed at Café Arco in Prague. This is a place where Franz Kafka met his literary friends. Visiting Prague in 2010 and 2014 brought me closer to this extraordinary writer. Franz Kafka inspired me to write, to find the axe that breaks the frozen sea inside me.
art history: the Italian Renaissance
les femmes peintres de la renaissance italienne
some creatuive writing tips in French and English.
écriture créative en français et en anglais.
#blog #langues #écriturecréative #Français #françaislangueétrangère #English #englishasasecondlanguage #creativewriting
art history: the Italian Renaissance
les femmes peintres de la renaissance italienne
chroniques de lectures: Tuez moi (Yolande Egyed), Une Promesse (Sorj Chalandon) , Le dieu des petits riens (Arundhati Roy) - book review: The god of small things (Arundhati Roy)
mes portraits d'animaux au crayon et en aquarelle réalisés depuis 2016
my animal portraits in pencil or watercolour created since 2016
Ce mois de juillet, j'ai lu plusieurs livres en français et en anglais. Et voici mes chroniques:
en français
Vol en piqué - Sabrina Kiefner
Vendre son livre sur Amazon - Fabien Dedieu
Coumba, te voilà femme - Christiane Schmits
This July, I read several books in English:
Jessup - Steven Ainley
Sell your book on Amazon - Fabien Dedieu.
Voici mes chroniques.
Tout d'abord : Vol en Piqué" de Sabrina Kiefner - roman historique -
disponible sur Amazon et sur commande en librairie "
https://www.amazon.fr/Vol-en-piqu%C3%A9-Sabrina-Kiefner/dp/236868784X/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_fr_FR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=1T7D45WVC3UOM&keywords=Sabrina+Kiefner+Vol+en+Piqu%C3%A9&qid=1659286306&s=books&sprefix=sabrina+kiefner+vol+en+piqu%C3%A9%2Cstripbooks%2C365&sr=1-1
en français
Vol en piqué - Sabrina Kiefner
Vendre son livre sur Amazon - Fabien Dedieu
Coumba, te voilà femme - Christiane Schmits
This July, I read several books in English:
Jessup - Steven Ainley
Sell your book on Amazon - Fabien Dedieu.
Voici mes chroniques.
Tout d'abord : Vol en Piqué" de Sabrina Kiefner - roman historique -
- ISBN-13 : 978-2368687840
disponible sur Amazon et sur commande en librairie "
https://www.amazon.fr/Vol-en-piqu%C3%A9-Sabrina-Kiefner/dp/236868784X/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_fr_FR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=1T7D45WVC3UOM&keywords=Sabrina+Kiefner+Vol+en+Piqu%C3%A9&qid=1659286306&s=books&sprefix=sabrina+kiefner+vol+en+piqu%C3%A9%2Cstripbooks%2C365&sr=1-1
In May 1987, when I was still working with a anglo-German truck company, a driver took me to London and there I found myself exploring, testing my knowledge of English. Shortly afterwards, I jotted some notes about my trip and used them later for my novel : Souvenir of Germany. My protagonist Tatiana Arnold takes exactly the same trip, albeit in December 1986 and this is what she sees in London:
Friday the 19th, while Tatiana was having breakfast the next morning, - toast, orange marmalade and black tea, it was very cold outside. Despite the winter showers, she had planned to explore the Sherlock Holmes Museum after visiting HMV on Oxford Street, the world’s largest record store. All her favourites were there: Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, America, Ralph McTell, Gerry Rafferty. She bought a CD with Gerry Rafferty’s singles "Baker Street" and Ralph McTell’s "Streets of London" as well as a CD of Christmas carols. She told herself that she had made a very good choice and was eager to listen to her music on her CD player at home. For lunch she went to the Selfridges Café and ordered a quiche and a melon and sweet-corn salad. ...
Then she explored Baker Street - that’s where the legendary fictional detective Sherlock Holmes lived. She was a fan and never missed any episode of the TV show with Jeremy Brett. To her great disappointment, only an oval sign paid tribute to Sherlock Holmes because in 221b there was an administrative building. The staff of the eponymous hotel informed him that in the past there had been a museum but that it had closed due to bankruptcy two years earlier.
a new privately run Sherlock Holmes museum opened in 1990 and is situated in Baker Street and bears the number 221B by permission of the City of Westminister although it lies between numbers 237 and 241, near the north end of Baker Street in central London close to Regent Park. Of course I visited that one as well, but that's another story.
Souvenir of Germany - Chapter 11
Friday the 19th, while Tatiana was having breakfast the next morning, - toast, orange marmalade and black tea, it was very cold outside. Despite the winter showers, she had planned to explore the Sherlock Holmes Museum after visiting HMV on Oxford Street, the world’s largest record store. All her favourites were there: Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, America, Ralph McTell, Gerry Rafferty. She bought a CD with Gerry Rafferty’s singles "Baker Street" and Ralph McTell’s "Streets of London" as well as a CD of Christmas carols. She told herself that she had made a very good choice and was eager to listen to her music on her CD player at home. For lunch she went to the Selfridges Café and ordered a quiche and a melon and sweet-corn salad. ...
Then she explored Baker Street - that’s where the legendary fictional detective Sherlock Holmes lived. She was a fan and never missed any episode of the TV show with Jeremy Brett. To her great disappointment, only an oval sign paid tribute to Sherlock Holmes because in 221b there was an administrative building. The staff of the eponymous hotel informed him that in the past there had been a museum but that it had closed due to bankruptcy two years earlier.
a new privately run Sherlock Holmes museum opened in 1990 and is situated in Baker Street and bears the number 221B by permission of the City of Westminister although it lies between numbers 237 and 241, near the north end of Baker Street in central London close to Regent Park. Of course I visited that one as well, but that's another story.
Souvenir of Germany - Chapter 11
