📚 Librívoros | La felicidad de David Bowie

“¿Cuál es tu idea de felicidad perfecta?”, le preguntaron a David Bowie. “Leer”, respondió el músico inglés. Esta es la primera pregunta del cuestionario Proust*, al que el intérprete de Space Oddity respondió para la revista Vanity Fair a finales del siglo XX.

Otra de las preguntas fue “¿Cuál es la característica que más valoras en un hombre?” y su respuesta fue “La habilidad de devolver libros”.

Amante de la lectura, “tres años antes de morir, Bowie reveló los 100 libros que habían forjado su carrera y cambiado su forma de ver el mundo. Este es su legado y una invitación irresistible para sumergirte de verdad en los libros y en su poder para transformarnos”, detalla la descripción de la obra El Club de la lectura de David Bowie (2019), de John O’Connell.

La lista incluye desde comics, literatura y ejemplares sobre música hasta autores como Anthony Burgess, Gustav Flaubert, George Orwell, Albert Camus, Vladimir Nabokov, T. S, Elliot, John Kennedy Toole, Truman Capote, Jack Kerouac, la poesía de Frank O’Hara y clásicos como Homero y Dante Alighieri.

Para cualquiera que planee realizar un viaje épico, te compartimos la lista completa:

Interviews With Francis Bacon by David Sylvester // Entrevistas con Francis Bacon
Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
Room At The Top by John Braine
On Having No Head by Douglass Harding
Kafka Was The Rage by Anatole Broyard
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess // La Naranja Mecánica
City Of Night by John Rechy // La Ciudad de La Noche
The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Iliad by Homer // La Ilíada
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner // Mientras agonizo
Tadanori Yokoo by Tadanori Yokoo
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
Inside The Whale And Other Essays by George Orwell
Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood
Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art by James A. Hall
David Bomberg by Richard Cork
Blast by Wyndham Lewis
Passing by Nella Larson
Beyond The Brillo Box by Arthur C. Danto
The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
In Bluebeard’s Castle by George Steiner
Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
The Divided Self by R. D. Laing
The Stranger by Albert Camus // El Extranjero
Infants Of The Spring by Wallace Thurman
The Quest For Christa T by Christa Wolf
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
Nights At The Circus by Angela Carter
The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodieby Muriel Spark
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Herzog by Saul Bellow
Puckoon by Spike Milligan
Black Boy by Richard Wright
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald // El Gran Gatsby
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima
Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler
The Waste Land by T.S. Elliot // La Tierra Baldía
McTeague by Frank Norris
Money by Martin Amis // Dinero
The Outsider by Colin Wilson
Strange People by Frank Edwards
English Journey by J.B. Priestley
A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole // La Conjura de los Necios
The Day Of The Locust by Nathanael West // El Día de la Langosta
1984 by George Orwell
The Life And Times Of Little Richard by Charles White
Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock by Nik Cohn
David Bowie, con una camiseta naranja y su amigo George Underwood, quien proporcionó la imagen inédita, la cual fue tomada a bordo de Amtrak en algún lugar entre Nueva Orleans y Chicago en la primera gira por Estados Unidos en 1972. Foto tomada de www.davidbowie.com
Mystery Train by Greil Marcus
Beano (comic, ’50s)
Raw (comic, ’80s)
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm And Blues And The Southern Dream Of Freedom by Peter Guralnick
Silence: Lectures And Writing by John Cage
Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews edited by Malcolm Cowley
The Sound Of The City: The Rise Of Rock And Roll by Charlie Gillete
Octobriana And The Russian Underground by Peter Sadecky
The Street by Ann Petry
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
Last Exit To Brooklyn By Hubert Selby, Jr.
A People’s History Of The United States by Howard Zinn
The Age Of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby
Metropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz
The Coast Of Utopia by Tom Stoppard
The Bridge by Hart Crane
All The Emperor’s Horses by David Kidd
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess // Poderes Terrenales
The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos
Tales Of Beatnik Glory by Ed Saunders
The Bird Artist by Howard Norman
Nowhere To Run The Story Of Soul Music by Gerri Hirshey
Before The Deluge by Otto Friedrich
Sexual Personae: Art And Decadence From Nefertiti To Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia
The American Way Of Death by Jessica Mitford
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote // A Sangre Fría
Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Teenage by Jon Savage
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Viz (comic, early ’80s)
Private Eye (satirical magazine, ’60s – ’80s)
Selected Poems by Frank O’Hara
The Trial Of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens // Juicio a Kissinger
Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes
Maldodor by Comte de Lautréamont
On The Road by Jack Kerouac // En el Camino
Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonders by Lawrence Weschler
Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Transcendental Magic, Its Doctine and Ritual by Eliphas Lévi
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
The Leopard by Giusseppe Di Lampedusa
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
A Grave For A Dolphin by Alberto Denti di Pirajno
The Insult by Rupert Thomson
In Between The Sheets by Ian McEwan
A People’s Tragedy by Orlando Figes
Journey Into The Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg