The Letters of Sylvia Beach
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (637 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0231145373 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 376 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-15 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"On the Beach" according to Christian Schlect. Letters sent from Paris and other points by Sylvia Beach to her many friends, over many years. It helps that many of these friends became giants of literature, such as Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Ernest Hemingway.While Ms. Beach was a good writer, these letters tend to be of a more family, friendship, or book-business nature. Not much talk of current politics or general social trends. For example, no discussion of her time while interned in France during World War II. However any one interested in the literary life and personalities--especially Joyce--of Paris in the fir. "A must-have for any Lost Generation aficionado" according to Michael B. These precious letters from Sylvia Beach to some of the world's most important literary figures of the last century are essential reading for anyone whose interest lies in the expat, modernist movement in 20th Century Paris. Such a wonderful peek into the past though Sylvia's own voice. HIghly recommended.. PRICELESS COLLECTION OF FASCINATING LETTERS SO GRATEFUL TO HAVE THESE LETTERS OF THE WONDERFUL SYLVIA BEACH, A PERSON SO IMPORTANT IN THE PARIS LITERARY WORLD OF THE 20'S AND 30'S.
Letters about her falling out with the Joyce camp will be of interest to today's scholars. 30 photos. From Publishers Weekly A respectable and resourceful young American woman christened Nancy Woodbridge Beach (1887-1962) would become famous as the revolutionary publisher of Ulysses. and proprietor of Shakespeare and Company, the bohemian Left Bank lending-library and bookstore to the literary stars. . (Apr.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Beach's most historically significant letter appears as an appendix—a protest againstthe pirating of Ulysses by one Samuel Roth, signed by dozens of noted literati, from T.S. Eliot to Jose Ortega y Gasset,
As librarian, publicist, publisher, and translator, Beach carved out a unique space for herself in English and French letters. Her warmth and wit made the Rue de l'Odéon the heart of modernist Paris.. Friends and clients include Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, H. Founder of the Left Bank bookstore Shakespeare and Company and the first publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses, Sylvia Beach had a legendary facility for nurturing literary talent. D., Ezra Pound, Janet Flanner, William Carlos Williams, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, and Richard Wright. Beach was the consummate American in Paris and a tireless champion of