It will be called Shakespeare and Company. It is Adrienne who finds “an ideal location for Sylvia’s new bookshop, around the corner of the Carrefour de l’Odéon, at 8 rue Dupuytren”. In Paris he meets a young bookstore, Adrienne Monnier, and she becomes its special friend. “What if, instead of a French bookshop in America, I opened an American one in Paris?” you ask Sylvia, American from Baltimore, born in 1887, arrived in France at the end of the First World Warafter an experience in the Red Cross in Serbia. Well: let’s go and browse the pages of the book then. (Getty Images) Sylvia Beach, an American in Paris

The second is that the many have in mind reasons why bookstores and libraries are important“.ġ920: Sylvia Beach in front of her bookshop. The first is that the readers become aware of how much Sylvia Beach was instrumental in changing the course of 20th century literature thanks to its Parisian bookshop Shakespeare and Company, publishing the Ulysses by Joyce when no one else had the courage to do so. In an interview with the site’s Robert Lee Brewer in January, author Kerri Maher declares her intentions: «There are two things I hope. Who it was this beautiful-legged Sylvia, book-librarian who treats Hemingway wellemerges with great pleasure from Kerri Maher’s book The Paris Booksellerjust released by Garzanti with the title The bookseller who saved the books, where a beautiful and multifaceted story is told. Sylvia Beach, the bookseller who saved writers She had nice legs and a friendly, helpful and sympathetic manner, and she knew how to appreciate jokes, jokes and some gossip. Sylvia had a lively face that looked sculpted and brown eyes, lively like a pet’s and cheerful like a little girl’s, wavy brown hair that brushed back to reveal her beautiful forehead and cut to the height of the collar of her brown velvet jacket. The books I borrowed from Shakespeare and Company, which was Sylvia Beach’s bookshop at 12 rue de l’Odéon and it also served as a library. Hemingway himself tells it in the third chapter of Moveable feast, the memoir about his early 1920s in France: «In those days there was no money to buy books.

(Photo by Gisele Freund / Photo Researchers History / Getty Images) Sylvia Beach, portrayed in Paris, in 1919, on the shelves of Shakespeare and Company.

Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach