20-05-2025
Rose Wylie: I haven't read a book in 15 years
Flaubert's Saint Julian. It always makes me cry.
I used to read like a fiend, but I've given it up because it took up my time. I paint and draw all the time now and watch films and read reviews in the paper. The last book I read was Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks, 15 years ago.
Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann. He's my favourite writer — the details in the furniture, the tapestries, the knives and forks.
Ulysses. I read it in hospital when I had a hip operation. I loved it; it made me laugh out loud. Then there was this whole piece about corpses and since I was in hospital I didn't fancy it. So I shut the book and didn't
