Photobiography vs Words: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: French Authors, History and criticism, Biography & Memoir
Photobiography
Why do photographs interest writers, especially autobiographical writers? Ever since their invention, photographs have featured as metaphors, as absent inspirations, and latterly as actual objects in written texts. In…
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Words
The book, consisting of Sartre distancing himself from writing and making his farewells to literature was very successful for the author and was hailed nearly unanimously as a "literary success"[citation needed]. In…
The verdict
- Very close on paper — pick by the themes that pull you more.
Scores by source
| Photobiography | Words | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.7 (10655) |
| Hardcover | — | 4.0 (1) |
Reception
| Photobiography | Words | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | — | 10655 |
| Editions | 6 | 38 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 11417 |
| Reading it now | — | 718 |
| Written reviews | — | 815 |
| Wikipedia attention | 48 | 18366 |
| Pages | 204 | 214 |