Title : Passage de l'Odéon - Sylvia Beach, Adrienne Monnier and literary life in Paris between the two wars - Laure Murat - book

• Summary

In 1915, Adrienne Monnier opened a new kind of bookstore-lending library at 7 rue de l'Odéon, La Maison des Amis des Livres, which was destined to become the favorite meeting place of literary Parisians, from Aragon to Walter Benjamin, from André Gide to Nathalie Sarraute. In 1921, Sylvia Beach set up a shop opposite, at number 12, founded two years earlier on the same model, Shakespeare and Company, whose regulars included Gertrude Stein, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Marianne Moore, Ernest Hemingway, Djuna Barnes... From meetings to public readings, from exhibitions to musical evenings, the "Odéonie" would become one of the most active centers of cultural life between the two wars, whose fame would cross the borders of France with the publication of Ulysses by James Joyce, edited in 1922 by Sylvia Beach, then translated and published in French in 1929 thanks to Adrienne Monnier. Laure Murat brilliantly evokes this mystical place where, thanks to the grace of two booksellers, the living repertoire of ideas was played out for thirty-five years.

• EAN : 9782070316274
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