Joyce+Hemingway+connection


 * (__[|James Joyce]__ once remarked in a letter to a friend: "He [Hemingway] has reduced the veil between literature and life, which is what every writer strives to do. Have you read 'A Clean Well-Lighted Place'?...It is masterly. Indeed, it is one of the best short stories ever written...")

And from the NYT Books website:

Hemingway was quick to see the merit in the work of James Joyce. In a letter to Sherwood Anderson dated March 9, 1922, Hemingway wrote:

"Joyce has written a most goddam wonderful book //(Ulysses//) * * *. Meantime the report is that he and all his family are starving, but you can find the whole Celtic crew of them in Michaud," (then a moderately expensive Paris eating place).

Nevertheless, on several occasions Hemingway contributed to the funds raised to aid Joyce, with whom he did a considerable amount of stout drinking in Paris. When Joyce's "Ulysses" was pirated in the United States Hemingway was one of the organizers of the protest which bore the names of many of the most distinguished figures in world literature.

When they can find seats not occupied by camera-draped tourists, members of a later generation of writers and artists come to the CafÈ des Deux Magots, where Hemingway used to sit. "Deux Magots" means "2 agents" -- and refers to the statues of 2 Chinese commercial agents that grace a corner inside the cafe.**

http://www.lesdeuxmagots.fr/