Subject: Re: the missing plaques
From: citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Date: Fri Oct 06 2000 - 13:56:13 GMT
tim wrote:
>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.
The entire story of Joyce and Beach is a field day for feminists or any
caring person. I recommend Noel Fitch's 'Sylvia Beach and the Lost
Generation' , which in truth focuses on the Beach/Joyce relationship. I
might add Beach took on the herculean task of publishing 'Ulysses' only
*after* a drove of publishers said no thanks. Remember, she was running a
bookstore/lending library at the time. She was not a publisher. I believe
she published a total of three books: 'Ulysses', 'Pomes Penyeach' by Joyce,
and 'Our Exagmination Round his Factification for Incamination of Work in
Progress (essays about Joyce's as yet unnamed 'Finnegans Wake'). Her friend
and lover, Adrienne Monnier, who ran the French bookstore, La Maison des
Amis des Livres, across the street from Shakespeare and Company, is another
of those great women of Paris. A fine book called, I think, 'The Very Rich
Hours of Adrienne Monnier', is worth a look.
--Bruce
PS: Tim, thanks for the info re S&C.
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