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.
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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.
Imprint | Yale University Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Series | Henry McBride Series in Modernism and Modernity |
Release date | October 1998 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | October 1998 |
Authors | Eugene Jolas |
Editors | Andreas Kramer, Rainer Rumold |
Dimensions | 235 x 156 x 29mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover |
Pages | 368 |
Edition | New |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-300-07536-6 |
Barcode | 9780300075366 |
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LSN | 0-300-07536-7 |