If writers have a spiritual world that is detached from real life, it should probably be like a study. Almost every writer, in his own study, is the king of this territory. A glimpse of the appearance of the study is, to some extent, also a glimpse of the writer's aesthetic and taste.
Holmes was born here
Arthur Conan Doyle
The classic image of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, became one of the most important writers in the history of detective fiction for his portrayal of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle lived in Windlsham, a suburb of Croborough in East Sussex, for 23 years and built a writing lodge for himself.
The study is also meticulous
It was also here that he completed several novels about Sherlock Holmes. At the time of his death, Conan Doyle still asked to be buried in a garden not far from his study.
A small table where great works set sail
Jane Austen
Austin's death was issued 200 years ago
Now the most famous Austen House in Bath, England, traces of Austen can be found in almost every corner of this spa town. But in fact, Austen was depressed and stagnant during her time in Bath, and her most important creative period was in the cottage of Chaton Farmhouse, where she wrote four works.
Austin's bedroom in the Chaton Cottage
Today's Chaton is not as noisy as Bath, and Austin's cottages are as well maintained as possible. In the bedroom where she and her sister live every day, there is a small bed with a drapery against the wall. Looking out of the bedroom window, it is the most standard English countryside.
View from the bedroom window
Surprisingly, Jane's desk was surprisingly small, not much bigger than a bedside table. Except for ink bottles, writing pens, and manuscript paper, I could hardly stuff anything on the table.
12 corner walnut table
But Jane Austen's four great works were indeed born here, and the novels that have influenced fans around the world today set sail from this small table.
A mini type smaller than a container
George bernard shaw
George Bernard Shaw is an Irish playwright who has won the Nobel Prize in Literature. His study was not yet a container large, or even small enough to be often mistaken for a tool room. This is a cottage that Shaw built for himself in the garden near his home in Hertfordshire, England. It is a small wooden house made of templates, and the roof is a large piece of iron. Underneath the wooden house is a rotating device, which allows it to rotate with the sun in order to receive sunbathing throughout the day.
A small but well-organized corner of the study
George Bernard Shaw liked to shut himself up in this small space and write without being disturbed by anyone. Although the study is small, it is also complete. Inside was a simple writing desk, an old typewriter and a worn-out chair. There is also a telephone on the wall and an electric heater. It was here that George Bernard Shaw produced such great works as PigLeon and Joan of Arc.
Inspirational home in the garden
Virginia Woolf
Woolf's most famous portrait angle
Adeline Virginia Woolf, British women writer, representative of stream-of-consciousness literature. The most famous novels include Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Moments of Existence. In Woolf's essay "A Room of Your Own" there is such a sentence: Women must have their own house. This room is not what we call a place of residence every day, but a space for women's self-independence, the sustenance of the soul.
The desk was large and empty
Woolf's wish came true in 1919 after she and her husband bought Rodmel's Monk's House, where she transformed the log cabin in the garden into a study. Woolf's study was small and rudimentary, with a wooden table, a high-backed chair, a small heater, and that was it. The desk is facing the garden, the view of the study is very wide, in front of it is an apple orchard, and not far behind the study is a church. In the quiet study, she wrote novels such as "Mrs. Dalloway" and "To the Lighthouse". There are still many traces of Woolf's life in Monk's House today.
Everything is available for rent
Natsume Soseki
Natsume Soseki has rented a house all his life
Today's sixteenth lunar calendar is the best time to see the moon. Ever since the Japanese writer Natsume Soseki translated the English "I love you" as "Tonight the moon is so beautiful", the moon viewing has added a layer of ambiguity to the matter. The translation is very beautiful, but regarding the study, Natsume Soseki is relatively simple and rude, the main reason is because he has lived a rental life all his life: he has lived in Matsuyama twice, Kumamoto has lived in seven, London has lived five, and after returning home, he has stayed in three places...
With so many books, moving is also a big project
As he himself said, "My goal in this life is not to build my own home. "Maybe that's how he lives. In an interview with the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper "Natsume Soseki's Shozai", when the reporter asked about the decoration of the shosai, Soseki replied: "Decoration or something, I as an unemployed vagabond have never thought about it." It was also a fairly blunt answer.
Jazz, coffee, and books
Haruki Murakami
In Murakami's study, records account for a large part
In 2017, Haruki Murakami showed readers his study while answering questions from readers on his Q&A website Murakami House.
Neat "record wall"
Haruki Murakami's study looks very simple, the color is warm and soft, there is no gorgeous decoration and decoration in the study, but it is extremely comfortable, and it can return to the most primitive state of writing and reading.
Quite pop style decoration
The desk used a thick wooden board with a total length of two and a half meters and has been used for more than a decade. Murakami said that for him, it was an important table. In most cool color items, the red mugs appear bright and bright.
The red mug occupies the C position
"It was very convenient because the red was eye-catching enough. Otherwise, if you don't pay attention, your hand will tip over as soon as it touches it, and the coffee splash will be miserable. ”
Vintage coffee in the basement
Blake Morrison
Blake Morrison was born in Skipton, Yorkshire. Famous poet, writer. His most famous novels are two autobiographical novels ("So, When Was the Last Time You Saw Your Father?"). and ("Things My Mother Never Told Me"). The former was adapted into the movie "The Father and Son Of The Road". Blake Morrison's study was located in the basement, damp and cold, even in the summer. In the winter, a few degrees below zero, I also stubbornly do not open the gas oven, preferring frostbite to be smoked and sleepy.
There is an order in the study
There are eight small paintings hanging on the walls of the study, and because of the nostalgia, almost all the furnishings in the study are old objects. The chair I used to sit on was brought back from the newspaper where I used to work while dealing with old things. The computer on the desk is also an antique, and the Shakespeare little man next to it was collected by Blake from the Huntingdon Library in California. The window of the study is the garden, and foxes often come to visit on the windowsill. There is also a display case in the room dedicated to the souvenirs he has collected over the years. For example, photos from elementary school, old photos of mothers, African wood carvings, father's stethoscopes, and so on.
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