Some of the great armchairs of well-known literary works

It turns out that on some occasions, the main role of certain books does not fall on the role of a main or secondary character, as is intuited a priori ... But they do in some cities, animals or objects that surround those characters. Today we come to talk to you about this, and more specifically, about those large armchairs of well-known literary works. We are going to talk about four of them, and if you stay to read, you may even discover some that you still did not know.

"The Tale of the Wicker Armchair" by Hermann Hesse

"The tale of the wicker chair" is a short story by the German author Hermann Hesse. Like much of this writer's stories, he is given a pair of morals that could well work as good teachings for people.

One of them is that sometimes we do not look at or give the importance it deserves to what we have face to face until someone, another person, does. It is the case of that wicker chair that for the young painter-writer of this story, it had gone totally unnoticed until he reads in another book that there is a painter who became famous painting something as simple and ordinary as a stool in his house.

The other moral is that sometimes we strive to be something we were born to be. In this book by Hesse, the young protagonist paints one thing after another, and no sketch he makes is "attractive" and worthy of contemplation. He realizes that he lacks details, precision and more ornaments than instead, he does manage to describe with the word ... This is how he realizes that his true vocation is that of be a writer.

"Properties of an armchair" by Julio Cortázar

On this occasion, I bring you the official synopsis of a book that if you have not read it is totally recommended by me:

«At Jacinto's house, there is a very strange chair: it is an armchair to die for. This chair has a silver star on the back: The brighter the star shines, the closer it is to death. His children rejoice in inviting visitors to sit on him in the mother's absence. Visitors who are already aware of the properties of the chair excuse themselves with great confusion not to sit on it. As children grow older, they lose interest in the chair. The parents then take advantage of the occasion to lock the room and the father looks at the door every morning to make sure it is still closed.

In this book, Cortázar gives such intensity to the story of this characteristic armchair that its reading becomes super short. Use the simple and plain figure of an armchair to create a whole story around it.

Sherlock Holmes armchair

If we look for notes and essays on the great work of the detective known worldwide as Sherlock Holmes, we will see how in the vast majority of them, the main character is related to his characteristic armchair in which he began to think and ramble case after case that he encountered.

Sherlock Holmes undoubtedly was a great detective with armchair and pipe in hand and in all his books we can find these two figures that represent well both his character and his profession.

Game of Thrones

If there is a static and representative figure of the saga of Game of Thrones is without a doubt the famous and adored by all, Iron Throne. And it is not for less (I will try not to do 'spoilers'), since whoever manages to sit on that great throne will have the absolute power of the Seven kingdoms. And only, in the absence of the king, is the Hand of the King who can sit on it.

This armchair, or great iron throne, is cold, hard and forged from the swords of surrendered enemies, these being a total of 1.000. 59 days took to achieve this glorious throne, in which even the swords are sharp. Aegon I Targaryens, He was the one who had it built, and according to him, a king should never be comfortable on a throne… Hence, whoever sits on it must be very careful not to cut himself or herself on the sharpness of it.

Do you know more characteristic armchairs like the ones seen so far? What do you think of these stories? Take your relax chair and comment 😉