![]() ![]() But the recording was an ordeal for Joyce, and the first attempt was a failure. ![]() Luckily, he and Coppola were soon quite at home with each other, bursting into Italian to discuss music. “Joyce himself was anxious to have this record made, but the day I took him in a taxi to the factory in Billancourt, quite a distance from town, he was suffering with his eyes and very nervous,” Beach recounts. Beach did so, ordering thirty copies of the final recording on vinyl, which she mostly gave to Joyce to distribute to friends and family. In 1924, she writes, she sought and gained permission to use the equipment at the recording studio His Master’s Voice-though they would have nothing much to do with the record, and she would have to pay for it herself, out of pocket. ![]() (It was also Joyce’s 40th birthday.) Two years later, she sought to have at least some of it recorded in Joyce’s own voice. On February 2, 1922, Sylvia Beach, through her legendary bookstore and occasional imprint Shakespeare and Company, published the entirety of James Joyce’s modernist novel, Ulysses. ![]()
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