Description
Book SynopsisPresents a collection of Eugene Jolas' works. This book includes introductions to anthologies, manifestoes like the famous Vertical, essays, some published here for the first time, on writers as various as Novalis, Trakl, the major Surrealists, and Heidegger. It is suitable for those interested in modernism, avant-garde, and multilingualism.
Table of ContentsTransitions: Paris - Berlin - New York; Eugene Jolas: Critical Essays 1924-1951 - Introduction; Remarks on the Edition; Eugene Jolas 1894-1952: A Short Biography in Key Dates; Selected Bibliography; Critical Writings; I. Rambles Through Literary Paris; II. Revolution of the Word: transition Manifestoes and History; III. The Language of the Night; IV. From Romanticism to the Avant-Garde; V. Crisis of Man and Language: Verticalist/ Vertigralist Manifestoes; VI. Literary Encounters; VII. Literature, Culture, and Politics; VIII. Across Frontiers.
