"Your Friend If Ever You Had One"- The Letters of Sylvia Beach to James Joyce

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-42703-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 31, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 732 g

Reihe: European Joyce Studies

This is the first-time publication of long-lost letters by a crucial figure in modernist publishing. Carefully edited and extensively contextualised, they document Beach’s unwavering, all-embracing support for Joyce’s art by publishing his controversial Ulysses in Paris in 1922 and other efforts such as getting fragments of Work in Progress published. They also reveal her difficulties with his uncompromising and demanding personality, as it is vividly illustrated in the Frankfurter Zeitung affair. The edition moreover includes all extant letters to Paul Léon, her successor after their break-up following severe disagreements over the American edition of Ulysses. Joyceans and scholars of modernism will find this an indispensable resource for further research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Frehner, Ruth

Zeller, Ursula

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Irische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Über Autor(innen)

Ruth Frehner and Ursula Zeller, long-time curators at the Zürich James Joyce Foundation, have edited essay collections, curated Joyce exhibitions, participated in the revision of Wollschläger’s classic German translation of Ulysses and, jointly and separately, published articles on various topics. Ursula Zeller has also developed dramaturgic concepts for Joyce’s fiction that were performed on stage in Zürich, while Ruth Frehner has focused on introducing Joyce’s literary universe to local students. Their next joint project will be a centennial exhibition on Ulysses 2022.