The Paris Bookseller: A sweeping story of love, friendship and betrayal in bohemian 1920s Paris

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Apart from a poignant crisis concerning Sylvia's mother, the bookseller's professional involvement with James Joyce poses the main, if not the only, conflict in Maher’s book.

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The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher is about an author and a publisher trying to publish a book “Ulysses” that has been banned in the United States. Writing in the third person from Sylvia’s point of view, Maher draws on letters and a memoir to imagine Beach’s internal struggles as she shepherded Ulysses into print and her tumultuous relationship with Joyce, who required a great deal of financial, emotional, and practical assistance during the writing and publishing process and the long legal fight the novel provoked.

Studded with appearances from the likes of James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Hemingway, The Paris Bookseller brings alive not only interwar Paris, but also the complicated friendship that led to the publication of Joyce's epic Ulysses and helped pave the way for Paris's enduring English-language literary legacy. Censorship was rife in the USA at the time (hence the banning of ‘Ulysses’), prohibition was in full swing, and homosexuality illegal, whereas France was much more liberal on all counts. When Joyce's new book Ulysses was banned from publication by a conservative America immersed in prohibition and censorship, after being wrongly labelled obscene, Sylvia took on the task of publishing it herself in France. We have tons of their writings - both fictions as well as letters and diaries - to make their thoughts and actions come to life, but they all felt like cookie-cutouts to me. Publication information is for the USA, and (unless stated otherwise) represents the first print edition.

The Paris Bookseller: A sweeping story of love, friendship The Paris Bookseller: A sweeping story of love, friendship

Yo nunca he leído Ulysses pero aún así me encantó leer de la novela y de muchos otros clásicos que esta lectura me ha descubierto, así como de la historia poco conocida de Sylvia Beach.

Bibliophiles and history buffs alike will rejoice in the detail and atmosphere that Kerri Maher creates on the page. With the historical setting in 1916 Paris, and from the legendary Shakespeare and Company comes the infamous book by James Joyce. It is forbidden to copy anything for publication elsewhere without written permission from the copyright holder. So, no wonder Sylvia – and many fellow Americans – were drawn to an exuberant Paris that sparkled with culture old and new. Obrir una llibreria anglosaxona a París com la Shakespeare and Company després de la Gran Guerra no sembla la idea més lucrativa del món.

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Any "Author Information" displayed below reflects the author's biography at the time this particular book was published. there would be what seemed like important struggles in the book, but it was never really expanded on and then the next paragraph, that struggle was resolved. Un dels projectes més ambiciosos que durà a terme serà la publicació de l'Ulysses de Joyce, obra mestra de l'autor censurada a Anglaterra i els Estats Units, i que farà de fil conductor de bona part de la història.With all the color and verve of post WWI Paris and the deep love of literature that pervades every page, The Paris Bookseller is a novel for book lovers to treasure. The captivating story of a trailblazing young woman who fought against incredible odds to bring one of the most important books of the twentieth century to the world. I was just thinking how interpretation of literature by other authors, as well as in film, can render the original story almost unrecognizable, minimize or replace the historical context, and totally redefine the original intent of a story, or even misrepresent the original context. Sylvia estaba encantada con la vida literaria de este lugar y soñaba con abrir una franquicia de la librería francesa en su país; pero por cuestiones económicas terminó abriendo su local también en París, pero para especializarse en vender libros escritos por estadounidenses y se concentró también en buscar autores que estuvieran promoviendo una literatura más moderna y compleja. Maher’s approach to using real people in her novel shows a deep respect for the people she is portraying.

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She describes the effort Sylvia put in dealing with Joyce, who could be difficult and demanding, in getting his manuscript ready for the printer as well as the strain on her finances that resulted from Joyce's negligence of his own financial affairs and nearly bankrupted 'Shakespeare and Company'. Which brings as back to Maher's poetic freedom to create a story in the LGBTQ+ - genre, in which Sylvia Beach's life can be creatively, imaginatively, be used as scaffolding to bring her life into the current social and cultural context of the author. The book continues to be a thorn in her side, as bootleg copies undermine her ability to profit off the book.In stark contrast to my thoughts of the Roaring Twenties was the actuality that the US was still more a cauldron of bourgeois sensibilities that led to prohibition and banning Ulysses. that he has been the subject of so many attacks and that his purpose has been so often misunderstood and misrepresented. I googled most of the famous names and some I had never heard up, not because I needed more information to enjoy the story but because the story made me interested in the people. She met James Joyce in 1920, and offered to publish his controversial and banned masterpiece, Ulysses.