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Ulysses: Celebrating 100 years of a literary masterpiece – BBC
Ulysses: Celebrating 100 years of a literary masterpiece 1 February 2022. By Colm Kelpie, BBC News, NI In the spring of 1921, Paris bookseller Sylvia Beach boasted about her plans to publish a novel she deemed a masterpiece that would be “ranked among the classics in English literature”. “Ulysses is going to make my place…
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Finding Healing at Paris’s Shakespeare and Company ‹ Literary Hub
Natasha Sizlo on Realizing She Needed to Write By Natasha Sizlo, August 19, 2022 Shakespeare and Company’s green-and-yellow facade and weather-beaten sidewalk book bins telegraphed old-world charm. Inside, thousands of books both new and used lined the shelves that stretched from floor to ceiling. More books were heaped on tables crammed into corners. I’d never seen so…
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Shakespeare and Company Project
Recreating the world of the Lost Generation in interwar Paris Gertrude Stein. James Joyce. Ernest Hemingway. Aimé Césaire. Simone de Beauvoir. Jacques Lacan. Walter Benjamin. All these writers were members of the Shakespeare and Company lending library. In 1919, an American named Sylvia Beach opened Shakespeare and Company, an English-language bookshop and lending library in…
