Sylvia Beech - Interview with Founder of Famed 'Shakespeare and Company', Paris

Sylvia Beech (1887-1962) founded the famed English language bookshop 'Shakespeare and Company' in Paris in 1919 - meeting place of so many later to be world renowned artists and writers.

She was interviewed in the 1950s about her relationship with James Joyce and publishing 'Ulysses' and about her friendship with Ernest Hemingway.

This is part of that interview.

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• Ernest Hemingway
• James Joyce

[HerAeolianHarp]

So many riches at your channel. Thank you.

[nickwallacesmith]

hi HerAeolianHarp - thanks for your lovely comment - much appreciated- makes me want to find new riches to upload, cheers from sydney

[jmancini1037]

the book that I have just read was

Henry Miller: The Paris Years [Paperback]

Brassaï (Author), Timothy Bent (Translator)

also a great read was

Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties by Noel Riley Fitch

[nickwallacesmith]

hi jmancini1037 - thanks for the title - looks a good read - think i might be off to my local bookshop tomorrow. and for the pointer to the Fitch book. i've been reading stanley karnow's 'paris in the fifties - do you know it? - he was a journo who turned some of his pieces into a book. also i've recenty finished 'almost french' by Sarah Turnbull - bout the difficulties of truly passing over to another culture. i lived in paris as a kid and it had a resonance for me. cheers!

[jmancini1037]

have you read Paris Wife??

I just finished a book by the photographer Brassai

on Henry Millers' days in Paris...........

[nickwallacesmith]

hi jmancini1037 - i haven't read 'paris wife' - thanks for the pointer to it. what was the name of the book on Brassai? just finished watching 'Paris was a woman' again - do you know it?

[nickwallacesmith]

hi jmancini1037 - yes, she was so important to promoting many writers in the early years of the C20 - as you'll know, gertrude stein, hemmingway to name just two - i used to go to 'Shakespeare and Company' when i was living in Paris - it's pretty unchanged - seemingly run down and disorganised - so nice it hasn't gone upmarket using its name - it would kill the whole meaning of the shop. cheers

[jmancini1037]

thank you for posting...

this is important stuff........

[nickwallacesmith]

hi craigpsimpson - yes, he does, very keen to do things exactly his way - which is not all a bad thing. cheers

[craigpsimpson]

I wish I'd met Joyce, seems like a very odd man.