Left Bank

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Adrienne Monnier opened her bookshop La Maison des Amis des Livres in 1915 when few women ran bookstores or owned their own business.Monnier’s bookstore was the 1st lending library in France and became one of the most important book centers in Paris almost immediately. #Monnier

From his earliest conception of the novel he was to write, James Joyce intended Ulysses to parallel Homer’s Odyssey. He assigned to each episode not only a legendary title, but also a time, color, technique, science or art,organ of the body & symbol. Help us finish @LeftBankdoc.

Four of the women who worked to see Ulysses into print —Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier—were openly gay. These lesbian feminists were committed to free speech and causes such as anarchism, female suffrage, & non-participation in World War I. #LGBTQ

The Little Review serialized Ulysses beginning in 1918 until 1921 when the U.S. Post Office seized copies of the magazine and refused to distribute them on the grounds that Ulysses constituted obscene material. Anderson, and Heap went on trial & lost, resulting in a Ulysses ban.

The editors of The Little Review Jane Heap & Margaret Anderson were charged w/obscenity by a NY court for publishing chapters of Ulysses. Judges ruled the book obscene & fined the editors $50 dollars each. Due to this 1921 decision, Ulysses was illegal in the U.S. for 10 yrs.

When Ulysses was published on Feb 2, 1922, James Joyce sent patron Harriet Weaver a copy of the book numbered one with an inscription. She was honored. Weaver donated Copy #1 of Ulysses to the Museum of Literature, Dublin where it's on display.

Nora and James Joyce had a great romance, but she didn’t read his work. We’re running a campaign on Seed & Spark to finish @Left Bank feature film. Pls donate to help us finish this film! tinyurl.com/SeedandSparkLeft… #ulysses #NoraJoyce #jamesJoyce

Nora and James Joyce had a great romance. He incorporated her frankness, sensuality, and indeed, some of her ways of speaking and writing into Molly Bloom in Ulysses. But her reactions to Ulysses were not positive. #Ulysses #NoraJoyce #JamesJoyce #irishliterature

The 1st publication of Ulysses was in the March, 1918 episode of The Little Review, published by Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap. In 1921 they were found guilty of publishing obscenity. #Ulysses #thelittlereview #margaretanderson #censorship

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The first of 23 installments of Ulysses appeared in the Little Review in March 1918. Between 1919-20, the US Postal Service confiscated 4 issues. At the 1921 NYC trial of The Little Review, Anderson and Heap were found guilty, fined and the novel was banned in the United States.

Adrienne Monnier opened La Maison des Amis des Livres in 1915. Her bookstore became one of the most important book centers in Paris. Monnier held readings in her bookstore which she called séances, including the reading and lecture of Joyce's Ulysses in 1921 by Valery Larbaud.

From the start, Sylvia Beach & Adrienne Monnier were more than booksellers. Adrienne's focus at La Maison d'Amis des Livres was books & words, while Sylvia's at Shakespeare and Company was on readers & writers. The sister bookshops became cultural centers of Europe. #SylviaBeach

Joyce's controversial masterpiece Ulysses would have never been published in 1922 if not for these forward-thinking women. #SylviaBeach #ShakespeareandCompany #Ulysses #indiefilm #WomeninFilm #Womendirectors

Sylvia Beach engineered an international protest against Samuel Roth who published installments of Ulysses in Two Worlds Monthly. Italo Svevo was one of 167 who signed the protest, & Roth become a literary pariah.

Next screening: June 5, 7 pm, at the Summit NJ public library.