Back to Blog
Ulysses sylvia beach6/10/2023 ![]() These letters shed new light on Beach's childhood in New Jersey her work in Serbia with the American Red Cross her internment in a German prison camp her relationship with French bookstore owner Adrienne Monnier and her friendship with a new generation of expatriates in the 1950s and 1960s. ![]() She negotiated with Marianne Moore to place Joyce's work in The Dial, she battled the piracy of Ulysses in the United States, and she struggled to keep Shakespeare and Company afloat during the Depression. As a librarian, publicist, publisher, and translator, Beach carved out a unique space for herself in English and French letters. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, and Richard Wright. D., Ezra Pound, Janet Flanner, William Carlos Williams, F. ![]() Her friends and patrons included Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, H. In this first collection of her letters, we witness Beach's day-to-day dealings as bookseller and publisher to expatriate Paris. ![]() ![]() Founder of the Left Bank bookstore Shakespeare and Company and the first publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses, Sylvia Beach was a legendary nurturer of literary talent. ![]()
0 Comments
Read More
Leave a Reply. |