Modernist literature in Paris between the wars: expatriates, salons, and journals (1918-1939)

1. Postwar Paris draws writers and publishers

   Nov 11, 1918Labels: Paris, Expatriates

   • Britannica WWI
   • Paris Peace

2. Shakespeare and Company opens as modernist hub

   Nov 19, 1919Labels: Shakespeare and, Sylvia Beach

   • S Co 1919
   • Sylvia Beach

3. American Library in Paris is founded

   May 20, 1920Labels: American Library, Paris

   • ALP History
   • ALP overview

4. Ulysses obscenity trial chills U.S. publication

   Feb 1, 1921Labels: Ulysses, The Little

   • Ulysses trial
   • UWM Exhibit

5. Shakespeare and Company moves to Rue de l’Odéon

   May 1, 1921Labels: Shakespeare and, Rue de

   • Sylvia Beach
   • S Co 1919

6. Joyce’s Ulysses is published in Paris

   Feb 2, 1922Labels: Ulysses, Shakespeare and

   • Ulysses novel
   • S Co 1919

7. Transatlantic Review links expatriate writers and editors

   Jan 1, 1924Labels: Transatlantic Review, Ford Madox

   • Transatlantic Rev

8. Monnier launches Le Navire d’Argent

   Jun 1, 1925Labels: Le Navire, Adrienne Monnier

   • Le Navire d
   • Adrienne Monnier

9. Black Sun Press begins publishing fine-edition modernists

   Apr 1, 1927Labels: Black Sun, Harry Crosby

   • Britannica Crosby
   • Black Sun Press

10. transition magazine amplifies experimental writing in Paris

    Apr 1, 1927Labels: transition, Eugene Jolas

    • transition mag
    • Finnegans Wake

11. Bataille’s Documents offers a rival avant-garde forum

    Apr 1, 1929Labels: Documents, Georges Bataille

    • Documents mag

12. Stein’s Rue de Fleurus salon anchors interwar gatherings

    Jan 1, 1938Labels: Stein Salon, Gertrude Stein

    • 27 rue Fleurus
    • Gertrude Stein

13. Finnegans Wake is published as Europe heads to war

    May 4, 1939Labels: Finnegans Wake, James Joyce

    • Finnegans Wake
    • Joyce Centre

14. World War II begins and Paris’s interwar scene unravels

    Sep 1, 1939Labels: World War, Paris

    • Britannica WWII