Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton.
358, 361
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Natalie Clifford Barney | By the 1920s the salon attracted an impressive array of prominent writers, artists, and intellectuals, including Paul Valéry
, Colette
, Jean Cocteau
, Gabriele D'Annunzio
, Rabindranath Tagore
, Ernest Hemingway
, F. Scott |
Occupation | Natalie Clifford Barney | Their goal was to offer financial backing to struggling writers such as T. S. Eliot
and Paul Valéry
, but the venture failed because Eliot was too embarrassed to accept the money, and Valéry secured... |
Leisure and Society | Sylvia Beach | At the first literary night of Les Amis de Shakespeare and Company
, supporters of SB
's bookshop, André Gide
and Paul Valéry
both read works by Valéry. Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton. 358, 361 |
Publishing | Sylvia Beach | Paul Valéry
asked SB
to translate his essay Littérature; it was later published in Bryher
's Life and Letters Today, under the signature of Sylvia Beach
and the Author. Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton. 333 Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace. 160 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sylvia Beach | |
Friends, Associates | Sylvia Beach | Among the first subscribers were Thérèse Bertrand (later Fontaine)
, André Gide
, Dorothy
and Ezra Pound
, and Gertrude Stein
. Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace. 22, 26-7 |
Wealth and Poverty | Sylvia Beach | Les Amis de Shakespeare and Company
was dreamed up by Gide
and Valéry
in order to save Shakespeare and Company
from imminent bankruptcy. It was a group of members who would contribute 300 francs (45... |
Textual Production | Sylvia Beach | SB
first demurred but was assured by Valéry
that they would do it together. However, whenever she ventured to ask for an explication of a passage, he would reply, I'm positive I never wrote that... |
Education | Simone de Beauvoir | As a student SB
continued her extra-curricular reading. She discovered, through her cousin Jacques Champigneulles
, the moderns: Alain-Fournier
, Cocteau
, Montherlant
, Gide
, Claudel
, Valéry
, Barrès
, and Adrienne Monnier
. Beauvoir, Simone de. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Translator Kirkup, James, Penguin. 185-6 “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Friends, Associates | Sybille Bedford | Introduced to Aldous Huxley
and his wife Maria
by the South African poet Roy Campbell
while at Sanary, the young SB
became their intimate friend. Bedford, Sybille. Quicksands. Counterpoint. 249-50 |
Textual Production | Dorothy Bussy | She followed this with another translation of a book about a painter, Camille Mauclair
's Antoine Watteau
, 1684-1721, in 1906. The next year she published her essay Eugène Delacroix. In later years... |
Education | Luce Irigaray | LI
took her first degree (an MA in philosophy and literature) at the University of Louvain
in 1955. At this time, she wrote a thesis on the idea of purity in Paul Valéry
's work... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Cecily Mackworth | |
Literary responses | Edna St Vincent Millay | The collaborative translation received the praise or approval of Paul Valéry
. Millay, Edna St Vincent. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by J. D. McClatchy, The Library of America, p. xvii - xxxiii. xxvii |
Friends, Associates | Hope Mirrlees | While living in Paris, Mirrlees and Harrison entertained visitors who included HM
's mother
(widowed in 1924), and Virginia
and Leonard Woolf
. Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press. 298 |
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