Show me
your bookcase so I tell who you are.
(Well,
this saying is not so valid any more because nowadays we can read books quite
privately on our reading devices.)
Anyway,
the old idea of books as mirrors of the personality is not entirely gone – Cecil Hagelstam, the owner of an antiquarian
bookshop in Helsinki, lets each month a well-known Finnish person to choose their
favorites from the selves of his bookshop.
In
November we see the display window with the favorites of the artist Cris af
Enehielm.
Her choices tell us that she likes Chekhov and Dostojevsky, Hesse and Kafka, Jouko Turkka and Tove Jansson, Zen Buddhism and history of art.
Many of
them are finds you cannot find any more at bookshops, because the life of new
books is nowadays shorter than the life of a butterfly.
But there
are always old books to stay and keep their unique, priceless value. You just might find them here.
C. Hagelstamin Antikvaarinen
Kirjakauppa
(C.Hagelstam International
Bibliophilic Antiquarian Bookshop)
Fredrikinkatu 35, 00120
Helsinki.
Open Mon-Fri 10 am AM to 6 PM, Sat 10 AM-3 PM.
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