
Man from Babel Eugene Jolas, Andreas Kramer, Rainer Rumold
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- Series:
- Henry McBride Series in Modernism and Modernity
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication date:
- 11 Oct 1998
- ISBN:
- 9780300075366
- Imprint:
- Yale University Press
- Dimensions:
- 368 pages: 235 x 156mm
- Illustrations:
- 16 b-w illus.
- Sales territories:
- World
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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.
"This is a valuable memoir by someone who was there and knew everyone."?Publishers Weekly
?There are a number of valuable insights here into literary friends like Gertrude Stein. . . Jolas understood [Joyce] like few other friends. This would be a valuable text for its perceptions of prewar Paris alone, but fortunately Jolas continued the narrative to his work in postwar Germany, where his view of the defeated Axis powers just after the war is devastating in its total condemnation of all things Teutonic. . . This is a valuable memoir by someone who was there and knew everyone.??Publishers Weekly
?There are a number of valuable insights here into literary friends like Gertrude Stein. . . Jolas understood [Joyce] like few other friends. This would be a valuable text for its perceptions of prewar Paris alone, but fortunately Jolas continued the narrative to his work in postwar Germany, where his view of the defeated Axis powers just after the war is devastating in its total condemnation of all things Teutonic. . . This is a valuable memoir by someone who was there and knew everyone.??Publishers Weekly
"In this fascinating autobiography, compiled from drafts and journals, we meet a man who was a vital factor in the intellectual life of Europe and the United States. . . . Highly recommended, especially for academic libraries."?Library Journal
?Man from Babel is exhilarating, deeply moving, and genuinely humane. Jolas?s life was a cameo version of the avant-garde experience, moving from the reckless utopianism of the 1920s to a sobering encounter with the intense pressures of contemporary politics in the 1930s and then, with the coming of World War II and the Holocaust, to a deeper understanding of their secret complicity.??Lawrence Rainey, Yale University?This book adds a great deal to our understanding of the historical avant-garde at a critical conjuncture.??Lawrence Rainey, Yale University
"This beautifully produced book will interest literary, political, and cultural historians at the graduate and research level."?Choice
?In this memoir of an extraordinary life in an extraordinary time, Jolas was anything but a blind participant in events of the first half of the 20th century. . . . [Jolas was] a person who did not forget the past or sentimentalize the future, but who by disposition, personal history and profession was an acute recorder of moods and events in rapidly shifting times. . . . He was deeply interested in the esthetic avant-garde of the 20?s; he was a defender of Dadaism and Surrealism and of any effort to break language and the arts away from the clich‚s of conventional light entertainment. . . . Again and again, Jolas reveals not only his sharp eye and ready ear for a good story but also his sensitivity to human suffering and injustice.??Robert Kiely, New York Times Book Review
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