Geniuses Together: Literary Expatriates in Paris From Gertrude Stein and James Joyce to Samuel Beckett and the Beats
Rare Book Collection, Melba Remig Salterelli Exhibition Area, Third Floor, Wilson Library Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturdays 9 a.m.-1 p.m., closed Sundays and holidays.
The exhibition "Geniuses Together" documents the literary activities of English-speaking expatriates living and writing in the city of Paris from the first decade of the twentieth century until the end of the 1960s. The exhibition includes such famous literary figures as Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, Richard Wright and James Baldwin as well as Beat authors Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs. The exhibit focuses not only on the expatriates but also the many small English language publishers, periodicals and bookstores that grew up after both world wars."Geniuses Together" draws on the full range of the twentieth-century holdings of the Rare Book Collection, the other departments in Wilson Library, and the photographic holdings of the Ackland Art Museum. Among the highlights of the display will be several of the works of James Joyce, most notably a remarkably fine first edition of the author's Ulysses, published in Paris by Shakespeare and Company. The Joyce materials are on special loan from two of the Rare Book Collection's most generous benefactors, James and Mary Patton of Tucson, Arizona and Snowmass, Colorado.
The exhibit will be on display through the end of August.
