Adrienne Monnier

Adrienne Monnier ( born April 26, 1892 in Paris, † June 19, 1955 ibid ) was a bookseller and publisher a central figure in the Paris literary scene between the First and the Second World War.

Life

Adrienne Monnier worked as a teacher. In 1915 she opened with her friend Suzanne Bonnierre in the Rue de l' Odéon in Paris a French bookstore named " La Maison des Amis des Livres ". Adrienne Monnier was one of the first booksellers in France. It held in the " Maison " readings with contemporary French writers such as André Gide, Paul Valéry and Jules Romains, thus helping to publicize this to a wider circle of interested literature. Also, Colette, André Breton, Paul Claudel and Rainer Maria Rilke frequented the bookstore.

With the help Monnier, Sylvia Beach was able to found the first English-language lending library and bookstore in Paris, Shakespeare and Company in November 1919, this bookstore first in the Rue Dupuytren No. 8 Quick became the meeting place especially for Americans. 1921 the business moved to the Rue de l' Odéon No. 12, across the street from Monnier's bookshop on the Left Bank.

Monnier and Beach were with many sizes of the Paris literary and art scene known, including DH Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, TS Eliot, Valéry Larbaud, Thornton Wilder, André Gide, Léon- Paul Fargue, George Antheil, Robert McAlmon, Gertrude Stein, Stephen Benet, Aleister Crowley, John Quinn, Berenice Abbott, Gisele Freund and Man Ray. As a bookseller, she stood with Sylvia Beach in the center of this intellectual circle, which was often referred to by Monnier as " Odéonia ".

In June 1925 Adrienne Monnier published for the first time a French literary magazine La navire d' argent. Adrienne published - in addition to a variety of French writers - a translation of TS Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, the first long poem Eliot, published in French. Monnier's magazine published lists of American works that were available in translation, and devoted an issue to American writers, William Carlos Williams, Ernest Hemingway and ee cummings. Jean Prévost published his first work, L' Aviateur, in Navire d' argent. The magazine underwent twelve issues.

From January 1938 to May 1945 were Monnier the Gazette des amis des livres out ( 10 numbers in 9 installments ).

Adrienne Monnier died in 1955 by suicide.

Her sister Marie Monnier was married to the French painter and book illustrator Paul -Émile Bécat (1885-1960), who portrayed both Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach.

Works

Seals

  • La figure. In 1923.
  • Les Vertus., 1926.
  • Les poésies d' Adrienne Monnier. Collected seals. In 1962.

Other writings

  • Les gazettes d' Adrienne Monnier. In 1953.
  • Souvenir de Londres. In 1957.
  • Trois agendas d' Adrienne Monnier. In 1960.
  • Lettres of desserts. In 1962.

Issues in translation

  • Records from the Rue de l' Odéon. Writings from 1917 to 1953. Island, Frankfurt am Main, inter alia, 1995, ISBN 3-458-16692-0.
  • The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier. Translated and ed. by Richard McDougall. . Scribner, New York 1976 edition: Bison Books, The University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NB 1996 ( excerpts from Les gazettes d' Adrienne Monnier, Dernières gazettes et Écrits divers, Rue de l' Odéon and Trois agendas d' Adrienne Monnier )
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