Sylvia Beach
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Sep 29, 2026
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He officially renamed it Shakespeare and Company.
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And he did that specifically to invoke the memory of the original Shakespeare and Company, which had been founded in 1919 by Sylvia Beach over on Rue de l'Odéon.
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That renaming is a vital piece of the puzzle, isn't it?
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Oh, absolutely.
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Sylvia Beach's original shop was the beating heart of the lost generation in Paris.
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Right.
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It was the hub for Hemingway and Fitzgerald, and it famously published James Joyce's Ulysses when the rest of the world had banned it.
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Elkin is careful about something many visitors may miss.
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The shop George Whitman opened in 1951, it's not Sylvia Beach's original.
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Yet it took that name for a reason, and the reason is a novel.
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In 1922, Beach's shop did what no respectable publisher in the English-speaking world would risk.