Uploaded March 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
When we were in Paris in 2003, we spent time at the legendary English language bookshop 'Shakespeare and Company' and I couldn’t resist a post this 1950s interview, embedded in a documentary, with its 1919 founder, Sylvia Beach.
Beach and girlfriend Adrienne Monnier, who ran a French language lending library, formed the nexus for the interchange between French and English literature in the 1920s and beyond. And 'Shakespeare and Company' was one of the major centres for much of activity of the ex-pat American artistic community, which included Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce.
In this interview, Sylvia Beach talks about her friendship with Joyce and her publishing his 'Ulysses' in 1922. She also speaks about her relationship with Ernest Hemingway.
Hope you enjoy this as much as I did!
When we were in Paris in 2003, we spent time at the legendary English language bookshop 'Shakespeare and Company' and I couldn’t resist a post this 1950s interview, embedded in a documentary, with its 1919 founder, Sylvia Beach.
Beach and girlfriend Adrienne Monnier, who ran a French language lending library, formed the nexus for the interchange between French and English literature in the 1920s and beyond. And 'Shakespeare and Company' was one of the major centres for much of activity of the ex-pat American artistic community, which included Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce.
In this interview, Sylvia Beach talks about her friendship with Joyce and her publishing his 'Ulysses' in 1922. She also speaks about her relationship with Ernest Hemingway.
Hope you enjoy this as much as I did!
