by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Jun 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
t’s the season for summer book lists to begin to appear. And I thought, how about some books translated from French that are fun to read? NOMany fine literary achievements will be excluded from this list. No Proust, with his lounging about and daydreaming about...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Jun 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
loomsday has come and gone, although James Joyce’s novel Ulysses will still be 100 years old throughout 2022! Here’s a report on my trip to Philadelphia to celebrate Bloomsday on 16 June at the Rosenbach Museum, the day in 1904 that the novel Ulysses takes...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Jun 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
REETINGS ! Happy two year anniversary to the blog! And thanks to you who read it avidly or from time to time or even once in a while. Much appreciated! The following post is from June 16, 2020. The 16th of June is the day in the year 1904 that Joyce set his famous...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Jun 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
LOOMSDAY IS A COMIN’Reader: Remind me? Me: Well, first of all, James Joyce published his great modernist work, Ulysses, in February of 1922, his 40th birthday, thanks to his patron Sylvia Beech who lived in Paris. So a big celebration will be held on this...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Jun 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
I once read that someone would so rather read what it is like to live in a country, say France, than to hear about the tourist highlights. Now, some of the tourist highlights are very important in a city such as Paris, but if you do live in France, you will...