Sylvia Beach

The Letters of Sylvia Beach

Herausgeber: Walsh, Keri

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Sylvia Beach (1887-1962) has been called the patron saint of independent bookstores. Founder of the Left Bank's Shakespeare & Company in 1919 and first publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses (1922), her facility for nurturing talent and promoting the avant-garde are legendary. In this first collection of her letters, we witness Beach's day-to-day dealings as bookseller and publisher to expatriate Paris. Beach's friends and clients included Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, H.D., Ezra Pound, Janet Flanner, William Carlos Williams, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, and Richard Wright. As librarian, publicist, publisher, and translator, she carved out a unique place at the crossroads of English and French letters. This volume reveals Beach's wit and resourcefulness, sharing her negotiations with Marianne Moore to place Joyce's work in The Dial; her battle to curb the piracy of Ulysses in the United States; her struggle to keep Shakespeare & Company afloat during the Depression; and her long love affair with the French bookstore owner Adrienne Monnier.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 167mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 698g
• ISBN-13: 9780231145367
• ISBN-10: 0231145365
• Artikelnr.: 26612087

Autorenporträt

Sylvia Beach. Edited by Keri Walsh. Foreword by Noël Riley Fitch

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface by Noel Riley Fitch
Acknowledgments
Introduction
References
Chronology
THE LETTERS OF SYLVIA BEACH
I. Friendship and Travel
II. World War I
III. Shakespeare and Company: Expatriates
IV. Shakespeare and Company: 1930s
V. Postwar
VI. Old Friends and True
VII. Legacies
Appendix 1. Morrill Cody's Article on Shakespeare and Company for
Publishers Weekly (April 12, 1924)
Appendix 2. Beach's Letter of Protest against the Pirating of Ulysses
(February 2, 1927)
Appendix 3. Beach's Unsent Letter to James Joyce (April 12, 1927)
Appendix 4. Beach's Speech for the Institut Radiophonique d'Extension
Universitaire (May 24, 1927)
Glossary of Correspondents
Index