Sylvia Beach
Sylvia Beach , born the March 14th 1887 with Princeton, the the United States, and deceased the October 5th 1962 with Paris is a bookseller and one of the principal American figures Expatrié be in Paris between the Première and Second world war.
In 1925, it holds the bookseller Shakespeare & Co, in Paris. She is first has to publish Ulysses (Romance) of James Joyce.
Its bookstore accommodates the American and Anglo-Saxon intellectuals of Paris: Man Ray, Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, but so French: Valéry Larbaud, Andre Gide, Paul Valéry, Jacques Lacan, psychoanalyst.
In 1941, it refuses to sell the last copy of Finnegans Wake of James Joyce to a German officer. It is then interned in a camp and the bookstore, closed. It will never be reopened. Sylvia Beach dies in 1962 with Paris. It appears in documentary the the hot hours of Montparnasse by Jean-Marie Drot.
External bonds
- “living rooms”
- on the site of the university of Princeteon
- Paris d' Hemmingway and of Sylvia Beach
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