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.
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