The memoir of the Shakespeare and Company bookshop written by the shop’s owner, Sylvia Beach, is essentially a series of collected vignettes surrounding the shop and the writers, publishers, critics, and others who were inevitably drawn to the atmosphere of Shakespeare and Company and personality of Sylvia Beach herself. As a central figure of the Parisian literary scene in the 1920s and into the 1940s, Sylvia Beach remembers in her book Shakespeare and Company what it was like to interact with and help publish the leading intellectuals of that era. Interestingly enough, one of the most important figures among the writers who have called the city home was not as a much a full-time writer herself, but rather the owner of a small but influential bookshop called Shakespeare and Company. American writers in particular have succumbed to the cities unique charms and intellectual atmosphere, crafting some of the most significant works in modern American literature while living and working within the city’s brilliant cultural atmosphere. Writers of various nationalities have been perpetually drawn to Paris over the last century for inspiration and encouragement in their creative endeavors.
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