However, she never identifies some of the relatives or friends that Beach mentions over and over again in her correspondence but only by first name, nor does she bother footnoting events in Beach's life that are referenced but not explained in the letters. The footnotes are bizarre: Walsh chooses to give footnote explanations/bios for mentions of quite obvious things like “Woodrow Wilson" and "the League of Nations" (to give but two examples), sometimes repeating the identical footnote in a matter of pages. Keri Walsh's edition, however, is terrible. She herself is a clever raconteur and I forced myself to put her occasional casual anti-Jewish remarks down to the spirit of the times, or whatever. Sylvia Beach is certainly interesting and it's interesting to see correspondence with Joyce, Pound, Hemingway et al. Her warmth and wit made the Rue de l'Odéon the heart of modernist Paris. Beach was the consummate American in Paris and a tireless champion of the avant-garde.
These letters also recount Beach's childhood in New Jersey her work in Serbia with the American Red Cross her internment in a German prison camp and her friendship with a new generation of expatriates in the 1950s and 1960s. This collection reveals Beach's charm 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 and Company afloat during the Depression and her complicated affair with the French bookstore owner Adrienne Monnier. As 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. Friends and clients include 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 had a legendary facility for nurturing literary talent.
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