Reflections on James Joyce: Stuart Gilbert's Paris Journal (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Imprint Series)

Gilbert, Stuart

ISBN 10: 0292776713 / ISBN 13: 9780292776715

Published by University of Texas Press, 1993

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reflections on James Joyce: Stuart Gilbert's Paris Journal (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Imprint Series)
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0292776713
• ISBN 13: 9780292776715
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Stuart Gilbert's friendship with James Joyce began in Paris in 1927 after Gilbert read several pages from a forthcoming French translation of Ulysses in the window of Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company book shop and went in to tell Beach that the translation was poorly done. She reported the encounter to Joyce, who subsequently sought out Gilbert. Their meeting began a literary collaboration and friendship that lasted until Joyce's death in 1941. This journal is a chronicle of that remarkable and productive friendship. Stuart Gilbert records many amusing anecdotes and provocative opinions regarding Joyce's social life, his relationship with his wife, Nora, and his compositional techniques for Finnegans Wake. Also included in the book are some of Joyce's previously unpublished letters to Gilbert (also reproduced in photographs), numerous unpublished photographs, and a typically dyspeptic 1941 essay on Joyce, Paul Leon, and Herbert Gorman by Gilbert. The volume is fully annotated and contains an introduction by noted Joyce scholar Thomas F. Staley. These materials from the Stuart Gilbert Archive of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin offer new perspectives on literary Paris of the 1920s and 1930s. They will be important for everyone interested in the modernist period.