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

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Maher ( The Girl in White Gloves) offers an alluring look at the history of Paris's Shakespeare and Company bookstore." - Publishers Weekly Sylvia and Adrienne are devoted readers. How does reading shape their lives? How has reading shaped your life? El libro comienza con una joven Sylvia que sueña con convertirse en escritora pero al llegar a París conocerá a Adrienne y a su famosa librería que la dejará fascinada. La novela abordará cómo estas mujeres lograron convertirse en el centro de intercambio literario más importante de la ciudad, como Sylvia se convertirá en la editora de una de las novelas más importantes del siglo pasado, las desavenencias que pasaron durante la guerra, así como la libertad sexual que vivieron estas mujeres en París. Además se harán muchas referencias a otros escritores muy importantes de la época y que estuvieron involucrados en la vida de la librería, las batallas legales detrás de la publicación de Ulysses y los muchos problemas que Sylvia tuvo que enfrentar para sacar adelante la escritura de James Joyce y ni hablar de todo el trabajo y financiación que Sylvia tuvo que invertir para lograr publicar Ulysses.

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United States v. One Book Called Ulysses was a 1933 case in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York dealing with free speech. At issue was whether James Joyce's novel was obscene. In deciding it was not, Judge John M. Woolsey opened the door to importation and publication of serious works of literature, even when they used coarse language or involved sexual subjects. The decision was affirmed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit,on August 08, 1934, but it is Judge Woolsey's trial court opinion which is now often cited as an erudite and discerning affirmation of literary free speech. What seems like another lifetime ago, I was a professor of writing, and the founder of the award-winning literary journal YARN. I also have an MFA from Columbia University. Ulysses from her little bookshop/library in Paris when it was banned and nobody wanted to publish it. The novel is well written, the descriptions bring the 1900s clearly into view, and the story, mostly factual and well researched, is excellently woven around the authors and the difficulties of the time. It clearly tells the story of a remarkable woman. Young, bookish Sylvia Beach knows there is no greater city in the world than Paris. But when she opens an English-language bookshop on the bohemian Left Bank, Sylvia can’t yet know she is making history.Books, bookstores, fellow book lovers, writers, this book is a veritable feast for anyone who loves to read. It’s fabulous historical fiction that made me feel as if I had just opened up a time capsule of the fascinating times of 1920’s Paris ! Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, James Joyce whose book Ulysses is a big part of this story, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others .

The Paris Bookseller: A sweeping story of love, friendship

Shakespeare and Company is more than a bookstore and lending library: Many of the prominent writers of the Lost Generation, like Ernest Hemingway, consider it a second home. It's where some of the most important literary friendships of the twentieth century are forged--none more so than the one between Irish writer James Joyce and Sylvia herself. When Joyce's controversial novel Ulysses is banned, Beach takes a massive risk and publishes it under the auspices of Shakespeare and Company.I came to appreciate many of these artists more after reading the story. At the same time, suicide is a running theme in the later part of the book, both among the artists and their families. Some suicides aren't mentioned in the book but are part of the later lives of the people we meet in the story. Be sure to read the author's notes at the end of the book. I always enjoy knowing how an historical fiction author may have taken liberties with dates and fact, to make a story flow more smoothly. I thought these author notes were especially interesting and I appreciate getting to read them. Recommend to fans of Paula McLean's The Paris Wife and anyone who enjoyed Hemingway's A Moveable Feast." - Booklist (starred review) La llibretera de París' és un homenatge a l'amor, en tots els sentits. L'amor cap als llibres i la literatura, que fan que la Sylvia s'embarqui en el projecte de la Shakespeare and Company quan sembla que té totes les de perdre. L'amor a l'ofici de llibretera, a donar vida a les llibreries i convertir-les en un punt de trobada bohemi i liberal. L'amor com a tal, lliure, desacomplexat i sense prejudicis. I París embolcallant-ho tot, un marc inconfusible, i la sensació que la història no podria haver succeït en cap altra ciutat. París era una festa. Havia de ser París. There's a Walt Whitman in you," her father told her every time she brought home another high mark on a school essay. "I just know it." Lulls you into an interwar Parisian dream where love – be it romantic, friendly or even for a book – can be found on a quirky little street in the 6th”

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

Another thought: a current interpretation of Persuasion by Jane Austen, in a recent Netflix movie, rendered the original intent almost unrecognizable. Austen was hunched over her small writing desk in the village of Chawton during England’s Georgian era as she wrote Persuasion. The viewer, however, most likely will be lying in bed, watching the Netflix movie, interpreted by a totally different writer in another totally contextual era. A story about Paris and bookshops was bound to find a place in my heart but this one has the pièce de résistance: the character of Sylvia Beach. I was completely enthralled by Beach’s life and her tenacity in founding the first English-language bookshop in Paris, while also publishing James Joyce’s epic but controversial Ulysses. With an abundance of delightful cameos from all of your favourite literary heroes as well as a fascinating rendering of Paris’s glory days during the 1920s and 30s, this novel will transport you as only the best historical fiction can.”It was an interesting part of history, when Sylvia Beach opened Shakespeare and Co in Paris. In 1922, she published Ulysses of James Joyce.

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