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

by Edited by Ruth Frehner and Ursula Zeller, Zürich James Joyce Foundation, Switzerland

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004427031
• ISBN13: 9789004427037
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 364 Pages