Stefan Zweig’s Marie Antoinette; by the pool in Argentario, TuscanyLast year the arts and culture website Nowness had a chat with Angelika Taschen on the novels that shaped her life.Taschen, the former wife of the renowned publisher Benedict Taschen and the daughter of bookshop owners, chose eight gems and then Joe McKendry went to work illustrating them.Here are the fruits of his labor. The captions refer to the book and the place read:Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables; in hospital, CologneGottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan; a camping site, EnglandHans Fallada’s The Drinker; Ayurvedic resort, Sri LankaThomas Bernhard’s The Loser; in my bed, BerlinHans...
