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Book: The Clothing of Books
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Jhumpa Lahiri _ The Clothing of Books
Personally, I think it deplorable to place the words and opinions of others on the book jacket. I want the first words read by the reader of my book to be written by me.
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Jhumpa Lahiri _ The Clothing of Books
If the process of writing is a dream, the book cover represents the awakening.
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Jhumpa Lahiri _ The Clothing of Books
And yet I know that expressing oneself necessarily means being different. The writer's voice is a singular one, solitary. Art is nothing other than the freedom to express oneself in any language, in whatever manner, dressed any which way.
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Jhumpa Lahiri _ The Clothing of Books
...American book jackets reflect the spirit of country - little homogeneity, lots of diversity.
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Jhumpa Lahiri _ The Clothing of Books
The right cover is like a beautiful coat, elegant and warm, wrapping my words as they travel through the world, on their way to keep an appointment with my readers.Books come to stand for various episodes in our lives, for certain idealisms, follies of belief, moments of love. Along the way they accumulate our marks, our stains, our innocent abuses, they come to wear our experience of them on their covers and bindings like wrinkles on our skin.Like every true love, that of the reader is blind.
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Jhumpa Lahiri _ The Clothing of Books
The more I think about it, the more I am convinced that a cover is a sort of translation, that is, an interpretation of my words in another language -- a visual one. It represents the text, but isn't part of it. It can't be too literal. It has to have its own take on the book. Like a translation, a cover can be faithful to at the book, or it can be misleading. In theory, like a translation, it should be in the service of the book, but this dynamic isn't always the case.
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