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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Keyser, Catherine

Titel

The Letters of Sylvia Beach (review)

Ist Teil von

• Modernism/Modernity, 2011, Vol.18 (3), p.646-648

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Quelle

Project MUSE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Woody Allen's recent film, Midnight in Paris, has the dual effect of demonstrating that the legend of 1920s expatriate Paris still looms large in the cultural imagination while chastening lost generation aficionados for the roseate perspective of contemporary nostalgia. While Beach was notably diplomatic on the subject in her memoir Shakespeare and Company (1959), one of the treasures of this book can be found in the appendix in the form of an unsent and previously unpublished letter to Joyce: The truth is that as my affection and admiration for you are unlimited, so is the work you pile on my shoulders.