James Joyce and Paul L. Léon (Modernist Archives)
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- Synopsis
- James Joyce spent the last decade of his life in Paris, struggling to finish his great finalwork Finnegans Wake amidst personal and financial hardship and just as Europe wasbeing engulfed by the rising tide of fascism. Bringing together new archival discoveriesand personal accounts, this book explores one of the central relationships of his finalyears: that with his friend, confidant and adviser Paul L. Léon.Providing first-hand accounts of Joyce's Paris circle – which included Samuel Beckettand Vladimir Nabokov – the book makes available again the text of Lucie (Léon) Noel'spersonal memoir of the relationship between her husband and the Irish writer (publishedas James Joyce and Paul L. Léon: The Story of Friendship in 1950), including his valiantrescue of Joyce's Paris archives from occupying Nazi forces. The book also collects forthe first time Leon's clandestine letters to his wife from August to December 1941,chronicling his desperate state of body and mind while interned in Drancy, France's mainNazi transit camp, and then in Compiègne, just before he was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Joyce died suddenly on 13 January 1941 in Zurich and Léon was murderedby the Nazis on 4 April 1942 in Silesia.Annotated throughout with contextual commentary by Luca Crispi and Mary Gallagher,this is an essential resource for scholars of James Joyce and of the literary culture ofParis in the 1930s and first years of World War II in France.
- Copyright:
- 2022
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781350133853
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781350133839
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 10/19/22
- Copyrighted By:
- N/A
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Luca Crispi
- Edited by:
- Alexis Léon
- Edited by:
- Anna Maria Léon