6/10/2023 0 Comments Sylvia beach memoir![]() ![]() These two petite women dispelled fear and the great menace before them, and by embracing books ‘like animals inside the ark’ helped preserve a small corner of humanity, perhaps even changing the course of history. Both recognized neighborhood genius writers in their formative state, and elevated books and reading to an art form during a dangerous time of war and propaganda. Two women booksellers were responsible for igniting their passion for books and passing it on to others. At the start of the twentieth century, Paris was fertile ground for two important bookstores that became community centers, places of spirit, and the birthplace of modernist literature. ![]() ![]() “My Loves were Adrienne Monnier and James Joyce and Shakespeare and Company” –Sylvia Beachīooks on or about bookshops are a small niche of titles produced, collected and read. ![]()
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