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6 unusual facts about Eugene Jolas


Eugene Jolas

In 1987 the family later returned to Forbach in Elsass-Lothringen (today in French Lorraine), where Jolas grew up, and which had become part of Germany in 1871 following the Franco-Prussian War.

An essay on James Joyce in Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress (1929), a collection on Joyce that also included contributions from Samuel Beckett, Stuart Gilbert, Robert McAlmon, William Carlos Williams.

Feldkirch, Vorarlberg

The writer James Joyce paid a visit to Feldkirch in 1932 to see his friend Eugene Jolas.

Forbach

Eugene Jolas (1894-1952), journalist, poet and translator, best known for founding the modernist journal transition (which published, notably, James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake").

Marius Lyle

Marius Lyle was a contributor to transition, an experimental literary journal founded in 1927 by Eugene Jolas.

Montparnasse

Robert McAlmon, and Maria and Eugene Jolas came to Paris and published their literary magazine Transition.


Maria Jolas

Maria Jolas (January 12, 1893 – March 4, 1987), born Maria McDonald, was one of the founding members of transition in Paris with her husband Eugene Jolas.


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