Man from Babel / Eugene Jolas ; edited, annotated, and introduced by Andreas Kramer and Rainer Rumold.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jolas, Eugène, 1894-1952.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Kramer, Andreas, 1963-

Rumold, Rainer.

Series:

Henry McBride series in modernism and modernity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jolas, Eugène, 1894-1952.

Poets, American--20th century--Biography.

Poets, American.

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Modernism (Literature).

United States.

Journalists--United States--Biography.

Journalists.

Translators--United States--Biography.

Translators.

Editors--United States--Biography.

Editors.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xxxix, 326 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [1998]

Summary:

The autobiography of Eugene Jolas, available for the first time nearly half a century after his death in 1952, is the story of a man who, as the editor of the expatriate American literary magazine transition, was the first publisher of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and other signal works of the modernist period. Jolas's memoir provides often comical and compelling details about such leading modernist figures as Joyce, Stein, Hemingway, Breton, and Gide, and about the political, aesthetic, and social concerns of the Surrealists, Expressionists, and other literary figures during the 1920s and 1930s. Man from Babel both enriches and challenges our view of international modernism and the historical avant-garde.

Born in New Jersey of immigrant parents, Jolas moved back to France with them at the age of two. He grew up in the "borderland" of Lorraine and later lived in Paris, Berlin, London, and New York, where he pursued a career as a journalist and aspiring poet. As an American press officer after the war, Jolas was actively involved in the denazification of German intellectual life. A champion of the international avant-garde, he continually sought translinguistic, transcultural, and suprapolitical bridges that would transform Western culture into a unified continuum.

Compiled and edited from Jolas's drafts and illustrated with contemporary photographs, this memoir not only reveals the multicultural concerns of"the man from Babel", as Jolas saw himself, but also illuminates an entire literary and historical era.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-318) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2 have dustjacket retained.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has postcard laid in from Sidney Feshbach to Andreas Brown regarding a reference to the Gotham Book Mart in the text.

ISBN:

0300075367

OCLC:

38831993