Item #4840 Transition 23 1934-1935; An Intercontinental Workshop for Vertigralist Transmutation. Eugene Jolas.
Transition 23 1934-1935; An Intercontinental Workshop for Vertigralist Transmutation

Transition 23 1934-1935; An Intercontinental Workshop for Vertigralist Transmutation

The Hague: The Servire Press, 1935. First Edition. Paperback. Cover by Paul Klee. Very Good. Wraps generally toned, rubbed, and soiled, a small tear near the head of the spine, a few creases running the length of it. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. This issue is complete with the supplement "Testimony against Gertrude Stein," which serves as a rebuttal to Stein's claims in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Eugene Jolas, the editor of Transition, bluntly puts it like this: "These documents invalidate the claim of the Toklas-Stein memorial that Miss Stein was in any way concerned with the shaping of the epoch she attempts to describe. There is a unanimity of opinion that she had no understanding of what really was happening around her, that the mutation of ideas beneath the surface of the more obvious contacts and clashes of personalities during that period escaped her entirely." Additionally, this issue features part of Finnegan's Wake, as well as work from Franz Kafka, Alejo Carpentier, Franz Werfel, among others. Very Good. Item #4840

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