Subject: Re: the missing plaques
From: Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 06 2000 - 13:27:37 GMT
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 10:15:49AM -0700, citycabn wrote:
> I'm not sure that it's the same store; I think someone stole Ms. Sylvia
> Beach's store's name. Anyone sure?
It wasn't stolen; it was, rather, handed down. So, the present store
in Paris is a descendent of Sylvia Beach's shop. I'm not sure what
the family tree looks like, but I think there was a nephew involved.
There's a series of "Shakespeare and Co." shops in New York, but they
are not in any way related to the Paris store.
> And I would remind our readers that this remarkable woman was the original
> publisher of Joyce's 'Ulysses'. She wrote her own memoir, published in
> 1959, titled, what else: 'Shakespeare & Co.'
Yes, she was (and many others were) chronicled in a wonderful documentary
film called "Paris Was a Woman," all about the remarkable women in
Parisian cultural life.
Joyce, by the way, left her high and dry with the expenses of Ulysses.
She was the patron of the book, and bore the production costs, but
according to the documentary film, he never saw fit to reimburse her
when he earned back some of the money.
Such is the fate of helping artists.
I've not read Beach's memoir. It goes onto my to-do list right now!
--tim
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