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'James Joyce and Paul L. Leon: The Story of a Friendship' Revisited (Hardcover)
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'James Joyce and Paul L. Leon: The Story of a Friendship' Revisited (Hardcover)
Series: Modernist Archives
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James Joyce spent the last decade of his life in Paris, struggling
to finish his great final work Finnegans Wake amidst personal and
financial hardship and just as Europe was being engulfed by the
rising tide of fascism. Bringing together new archival discoveries
and personal accounts, this book explores one of the central
relationships of his final years: that with his friend, confidant
and adviser Paul L. Leon. Providing first-hand accounts of Joyce's
Paris circle - which included Samuel Beckett and Vladimir Nabokov -
the book makes available again the text of Lucie (Leon) Noel's
personal memoir of the relationship between her husband and the
Irish writer (published as James Joyce and Paul L. Leon: The Story
of Friendship in 1950), including his valiant rescue of Joyce's
Paris archives from occupying Nazi forces. The book also collects
for the first time Leon's clandestine letters to his wife from
August to December 1941, chronicling his desperate state of body
and mind while interned in Drancy, France's main Nazi transit camp,
and then in Compiegne, just before he was deported to
Auschwitz-Birkenau. Joyce died suddenly on 13 January 1941 in
Zurich and Leon was murdered by the Nazis on 4 April 1942 in
Silesia. Annotated throughout with contextual commentary by Luca
Crispi and Mary Gallagher, this is an essential resource for
scholars of James Joyce and of the literary culture of Paris in the
1930s and first years of World War II in France.
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