Books & Stamps

For the last couple of wintry nights I've been reading Meeting at Potsdam by Charles L. Mee.
After awhile I started thinking that I have a stamp commemorating
that momentous historical treaty.
So I searched and sure enough East Germany issued this strip of
three in 1970 for the 25th Anniversary.



Vice versa there's been many times when after looking at stamps
of lets say a famous personality or historical event and there
isn't enough info on Wikipedia, I look for the book.

Stamps and books are certainly intertwined.

How true Litho

I have stated before that collectors should be always on the look-out for good books in general.

We, as collectors, are generally tuned in to many events and associate them with stamps and books. Events and stamps also make great collatoral partners too <G>

Chimo

Bujutsu

I bought a book about Iceland stamps a few months ago. It provides some interesting insight on Icelandic stamps and Iceland itself. The book is called "Exploring Iceland through its stamps", by Don Brandt.

After reading on the Hard Hat thread that Franz Kafka invented
the safety helmet I went to the library and found a couple of books
about the author.
The Cambridge Companion To Kafka, edited by Julian Preece and
Kafka, The Decisive Years by Reiner Stack.
They kind of got me interested in Kafka's novels again and when I
return them I will look for and re-read The Trial (Der Process) and The Castle (Das Schloss)

To my knowledge there have only been a few stamps issued in his honour
2 by Germany and one each by Czechoslovakia and Israel yet
surprisingly none by Austria.

series of Polish writers

Nice James but where is Kafka?

look up

Litho
If you can get a hand on the movie "Kafka" it 's one of my favorite. It's inspired by the novel "The Castle". I read Kafka and it tells me about a dictatorial regime with no freedom of speech and a secret police that murder opponents. Kakfa just write about an oppressive regime. It's been a long time I read his novels but I still can feel the atmosphere of them. Daniel

Daniel, I presume you're referring to the 1991 movie "Kafka".
No I have not seen it but now I will try and find it. Sounds
interesting, thanks.
I did see Orson Welles' The Trial many years ago on TV and I recall
it was very entertaining and that's another one I wouldn't mind
viewing again.

After posting in the art thread https://goscf.com/t/5754&whichpage=7
and reading a short article about Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
in Wikipedia I wanted to find out more.

Got a book from the library, Caravaggio A Life Sacred and Profane
written by Andrew Graham - Dixon. Published in 2010.

Great read about an interesting and tragic life, so much talent
so short a life.

The book has coloured illustrations of most of his work and the author describes the story behind the paintings very well.

The little that is known about Caravagio the man is gleaned
from 400 year old court records listing the innumerable
charges against him.
It's amazing that the guy had time to paint since he was
always in trouble, most of it his own making.

Graham - Dixon pieces together the little factual information
available into an interesting story.