Sylvia Beach
Founder of the Left Bank bookstory Shakespeare and Co., Sylvia Beach was a luminary in the Parisian literary scene. The first publisher of Ulysses by James Joyce, Beach was also a translator of French-language literary works.
Sylvia Beach
A Barbarian in Asia
by Henri Michaux
Translated by Sylvia Beach
Henri Michaux (1889-1984), the great French poet and painter, set out as a young man to see the Far East. Traveling from India to the Himalayas, and on to China and Japan, Michaux voices his vivid impressions, cutting opinions, and curious insights: he has no trouble speaking his mind. Part fanciful travelogue and part exploration of culture, A Barbarian in Asia is presented here in its original translation by Sylvia Beach, the famous American-born bookseller in Paris.
