Left Bank: A hybrid documentary about the publication of Ulysses in 1922.

Left Bank: A hybrid documentary about the publication of Ulysses in 1922.Left Bank: A hybrid documentary about the publication of Ulysses in 1922.

Preview version screenings: February 3, 2023, XV James Joyce Italian Foundation, 'Joys in Transition' University of Rome. Dublin, June 14, 2022.

Interview with author Colm Tóibín

Because of censorship laws, James Joyce's novel Ulysses could not be published in the United States or Great Britain. Sylvia Beach, the American owner of the Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company, courageously decided to publish it, in spite of obscenity allegations. The first edition of Ulysses, printed in Dijon, France, was delivered to Sylvia Beach the morning of February 2, 1922 - James Joyce's 40th birthday.

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