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Tag Archives: Sylvia Beach
February 2, 1922
Sylvia Beach (publisher of “Ulysses”): I was on the platform, my heart going like the locomotive, as the train from Dijon came slowly to a standstill and I saw the conductor getting off, holding a parcel and looking around for … Continue reading
“spicy books”
“Joyce was soon deriving a steady income from Ulysses in spite of the fact that it was denied its normal outlets in the English-speaking countries. And, of course, its reputation as a banned book helped the sales. It was saddening, … Continue reading
Joyce and Beach
Here’s a picture of Joyce, and Sylvia Beach (the courageous woman who decided to publish Ulysses):
February 2, 1922
Sylvia Beach (publisher of “Ulysses”): I was on the platform, my heart going like the locomotive, as the train from Dijon came slowly to a standstill and I saw the conductor getting off, holding a parcel and looking around for … Continue reading
“he had never met a bore”
Sylvia Beach: As for Joyce, he treated people invariably as his equals, whether they were writers, children, waiters, princesses, or charladies. What anybody had to say interested him; he told me that he had never met a bore.
George Bernard Shaw: “to me it is all hideously real”
A famous letter from Shaw to publisher Sylvia Beach: “To you possibly Ulysses may appeal as art; you are probably (you see I don’t know you) a young barbarian beglamoured by the excitements and enthusiasms that art stirs up in … Continue reading
Sylvia Beach: “spicy books”
A bit of biographical information about her here. I wrote about her on her birthday. “Joyce was soon deriving a steady income from Ulysses in spite of the fact that it was denied its normal outlets in the English-speaking countries. … Continue reading
Happy Birthday to Sylvia Beach
… who is responsible for publishing James Joyce’s Ulysses when no one else would touch it. A fascinating woman: born in New Jersey, I think? Dad? She served in World War I with the Red Cross in Serbia, and after … Continue reading