Informazioni generali

Data di nascita: 1892-04-26
Data di morte: 1955-06-19
Sesso: female
Nazionalità: France
Luogo di nascita: Paris, France
Luogo di morte: Paris, France
Luogo di residenza: Paris, France
London, England, UK
Eastbourne, Sussex, England, UK
Attività lavorative: poet
bookseller
publisher
teacher
translator
essayist
Relazioni: Beach, Sylvia (companion)
Organizzazioni: Université des Annales
Breve biografia: When 23-year-old Adrienne Monnier opened her bookshop and lending library in the Latin Quarter in Paris called "La Maison des Amis des Livres" in 1915, she was one of the first independent woman booksellers in France. She and her shop provided a focal point for an international group of writers and artists. Le Navire d'Argent (The Silver Ship), the literary magazine she founded in 1925, published the works in French translation of T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, and many other important British and American authors, which helped make their work known to more readers. She also published the photographs of Gisèle Freund in book form. Adrienne assisted Sylvia Beach in establishing her own bookstore, Shakespeare & Co., and the two women lived together for many years.

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The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier di Adrienne Monnier

Most people who read or who are interested in Paris know about Sylvia Beach and her Shakespeare and Co. bookshop that used to be on the Rue de l'Odeon, where all the famous writers of the time would come to buy or borrow books, give readings or listen to the readings of others, and shoot the breeze with Sylvia. But possibly not that many people know much about Adrienne Monnier, the French woman who helped Beach start her bookshop.

Monnier had a French bookshop on the Rue de l'Odeon. She and Beach were probably lovers, they lived together for many years and remained life-long friends when Beach moved out. Beach was the first to publish James Joyce's Ulysses. In English. Monnier was the first to have it translated and to publish it in French.

Beach wrote a lovely memoir titled Shakespeare and Co. where she tells about her bookshop and all those who came to it. This book is a compilation of Monnier's writings, also about her own bookshop, her publications, and all those who came to her bookshop and whom she knew. As much as I loved the Beach book, her writing is terse and she is very, maybe too discrete. Monnier's writing I found to be more elegant, more detailed, and more varied in its subject matter. Monnier was the first to publish anything by Antoine de Saint-Exupery In addition to the poets and writers whom she knew well, she wrote about musicians, artists, singers, and actors. There are pieces about Maurice Chevalier, Vittorio de Sica and some of his films, Alec Guinness, Marlon Brando, and Ernest Hemingway when he came to liberate the Rue de l'Odeon the day after the German surrender.… (altro)

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