Bookshelf of the Week: Bratislavan Bibliophile

There’s not a lot of detail about the subject for this week’s Bookshelf of the Week – other than it was taken in Bratislava, by fiction writer Michal Hvorecky – but I don’t think it really needs any. With books flowing from wall-to-wall and floor-to-ceiling, and even spilling out to the next room, this picture definitely speaks for itself. And what does it say most of all? That the person who lives here (who I’m assuming to be Michal) REALLY loves books. I stand in awe!

Thanks for a great shot Michal

Edit: Michal, the taker of this shot and owner of the bookshelves, was kind enough to send me some details on his most wonderful library. Here’s what Michal had to say:

This is my collection of the fiction (70 percent) and non-fiction (the rest). The books are in Slovak, Czech, German and English languages. About half of them are from second hand bookstores. my real treasures are some signed copies by the writers such as William Gibson or Cormac McCarthy and Egon Bondy.

The bookshelves were build specially for this small apartment by the couple of excellent Slovak joiners, all is hand-made.

Many thanks for the extra information Michal. If I wasn’t envious before (and I was), then I am now – signed copies from Gibson and McCarthy? Ohh and have you got the phone number for those joiners? They are superb craftsmen.

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