When she met James Joyce, he had already written Ulysses<\/i>, and – hm. Trying to get my story straight here: It was a finished manuscript (or as finished as any Joycean manuscript ever would be) – and because it was thought of as “obscene”, nobody would publish it.<\/p>\n
But Sylvia Beach – who had never published a book before – took a risk and said that Shakespeare & Co. would put out this highly controversial work. Once it was published, the obscenity controversies heated up, and there were a couple of years there where the only place you could get a copy of Ulysses<\/i> was through Beach’s bookshop in Paris.<\/p>\n
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<\/i>, published last year in honor of the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday. It’s a James Joyce “commonplace book” – filled with quotes and excerpts from reviews and anecdotes about the man, and his own sketches of himself, etc. It’s a great little reference. In it, Sylvia Beach is, of course, a major character.<\/p>\n