Lewis (also rec’d by Tilda Swinton & Trevor Noah) “My father used to read them to send me to sleep when I was 4.
Complement with the bookshelves of lit rockers Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Jim Morrisson, Morrissey, Nick Cave, and Patti Smith. But let’s take Jean-Paul Sartre: his description of the human condition stays unmatched, and I defy anyone to do better than Nausea.”įrom The Chronicles of Narnia to Kafka’s enduring influence, find Robert Smith’s reading list below. Authors for teenagers are considered caricatures. The amazement is too pure to be laughed at. But it would be a pathetic reaction, typical of a mocking father facing his child’s first emotions. “Sometimes as I look back on myself as a teenager, reading Salinger, Rimbaud or Edgar Allen Poe…it makes me want to laugh.
In a 2003 interview with French magazine Rock & Folk (preserved by Cure archive Pictures of You), the goth father discussed the books of his life: As frontman of ’80s post-punk powerhouse The Cure, Robert Smith infused his songs with literary inspirations as far-reaching as Baudelaire’s classic poetry and Penelope Farmer’s haunting children’s stories.
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