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i ^ p f f i b A I Writing and art from transition magazine 1927-1930 CONTRIBUTIONS BY SAMUEL BECKETT PAUL BOWLES KAY BOYLE GEORGES BRAQUE ALEXANDER CALDER HART CRANE GIORGIO DE CHIRICO ANDRE GIDE ROBERT GRAVES ERNEST HEMINGWAY JAMES JOYCE C.G. JUNG FRANZ KAFKA PAUL KLEE ARCHIBALD MACLEISH MAN RAY JOAN MIRO PABLO PICASSO KATHERINE ANNE PORTER RAINER MARIA RILKE DIEGO RIVERA GERTRUDE STEIN TRISTAN TZARA WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS AND OTHERS ■ m i , . « f " li jf IT ) r> ’ j vjffjiStl ‘■vv ■H H Iir ■ nr ¥ \I ififl $ 14.95 $388 in transition: A Paris Anthology IK i\ Paris transition An Anthology transition: A Paris Anthology WRITING AND ART FROM transition MAGAZINE 1927-30 With an Introduction by Noel Riley Fitch Contributions by Samuel BECKETT, Paul BOWLES, Kay BOYLE, Georges BRAQUE, Alexander CALDER, Hart CRANE, Giorgio DE CHIRICO, Andre GIDE, Robert GRAVES, Ernest HEMINGWAY, James JOYCE, C. G. JUNG, Franz KAFKA, Paul KLEE, Archibald MacLEISH, MAN RAY, Joan MIRO, Pablo PICASSO, Katherine Anne PORTER, Rainer Maria RILKE, Diego RIVERA, Gertrude STEIN, Tristan TZARA, William Carlos WILLIAMS and others A n c h o r B o o k s DOUBLEDAY NEW YORK LONDON TORONTO SYDNEY AUCKLAND A n A n c h o r B o o k PUBLISHED BY DOUBLEDAY a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10103 A n c h o r B o o k s , D o u b l e d a y , and the portrayal of an anchor are trademarks of Doubleday, a division of B antam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. a l l r i g h t s r e s e r v e d . Additional copyright information appears in the Acknowledgments section, which constitutes a continuation of this notice. This book was created by 4 Doughty Street London WC1N 2PH England Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data In Transition: a Paris anthology / with an introduction by Noel Riley Fitch.— 1st ed. p. cm. 1. Literature. Modern—20th century. I. Transition (1927) PN6012.I46 1990 89-77184 820.8'00912—dc20 CIP i s b n : 0-385-41161-8 Copyright © 1990 by Phillips & Company Books, Inc. Typesetting by SX Composing Ltd, Rayleigh, Essex, England Halftone origination by Fotographics Ltd, London/Hong Kong PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA October, 1990 FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION tahIjE or (ovn:\ns [ f ] Fiction; [p ] Poetry; [ n f ] Nonfiction INTRODUCTION, by Noel Riley Fitch 11 A PARIS ANTHOLOGY 17 Notes on the Text 18 PROCLAMATION [ n f ] 19 The EDITORS : Introduction to Issue No. 1 [ n f ] 20 : Suggestions for a New Magic [ n f ] 23 Berenice ABBOTT : Poem [ p ] 25 : Portrait of James Joyce [ p h o t o g r a p h ] 26 Richard ALDINGTON : Stairway of Pain [P] 27 Hans ARP : The Light-Shunning Paradise (Fragment) [p] 28 :Arping 29 Eugene ATGET : Shopfront [ p h o t o g r a p h ], w it h an Essay by B. J. Kospoth 30 Djuna BARNES : Rape and Repining [ f ] 34 Hamilton BASSO : New Orleans Letter [ n f ] 40 Samuel BECKETT : Malacoda [ p] 43 :EnuegII[p] 44 : Dortmunder [ p] 45 Paul BOWLES : Entity [ f ] 46 : Delicate Song [p] 47 Kay BOYLE : Vacation-Time [ f ] 48 On the Run [ f ] 49 : Letter to Archibald Craig [ p] 52 : The United States (for William Carlos Williams) [p] 54 Constantin BRANCUSI : Photo of His Studio [ p h o t o g r a p h ] 56 Georges BRAQUE : Nature Morte [ p a in t in g ] 57 : Nature Morte [ p a in t in g a n d c o l l a g e ] 58 Bob BROWN : The Readies [ n f ] 59 BRYHER : Three Poems 66 Alexander CALDER : Wire Sculpture 68 Erskine CALDWELL : July [ f ] 69 — 5 — Emanuel CARNEVALI : Almost a Fable [f ] 72 Malcolm COWLEY : Seven O’Clock [p] 74 : The Chestnut Trees are Dead [p] 75 : Race Between a Subway Local and the Subway Express [ f ] 76 Archibald CRAIG : Summer Time [p] 79 Hart CRANE : Moment Fugue [p] 80 : The Harbor Dawn [p] 81 : Poem 82 Caresse CROSBY : The Stranger [p] 83 Harry CROSBY : Apparition [p h o t o g r a p h ] 88 : The New Word [n f ] 89 : Suite [ f ] 90 Stuart DAVIS : Gasoline Pump [w a t e r c o l o r ] 95 Giorgio DE CHIRICO : Painting 96 Robert DESNOS : The Dove of the Ark [p] 97 Midnight at Two O’Clock [s i l e n t f i l m s c e n a r i o ] 98 Paul ELUARD : A Dream 103 : In Company (Surrealist Text) 103 : Georges Braque [p ] 104 Max ERNST Mer et Oiseau [f r o t t a g e ] 105 Serge ESSENIN : Poem 106 Andre GIDE : Roundelay of the Pomegranate [p] 107 : Food of the Earth [f ] 111 Claire and Ivan GOLL : Poems 113 : Poems 115 Robert GRAVES : O Jorrocks, I Have Promised [p] 116 Juan GRIS : Painting (from the Collection of Miss Gertrude Stein) 118 : Still Life [p a i n t i n g ] 119 Georg GROSS : The Little Agitator [p a i n t i n g ] 120 H.D. : Gift [p] 121 : Psyche [p] 123 Ernest HEMINGWAY : Hills Like White Elephants [f ] 125 Ernest HEMINGWAY IN FLORIDA (loaned by Sylvia Beach) [p h o t o g r a p h ] 127 Theodore D. IRWIN (New York World) : Slanguage: 19.29 [n f ] 130 Eugene JOLAS : Acrobats [p] 133 : Express [p] 134 James JOYCE : Work in Progress [Finnegans Wake] 135 : From “Anna Livia Plurabelle” 136 : Translation into Basic English 137 — 6 — C.G. JUNG : Psychology and Poetry [n f] 141 FranZ KAFKA : The Sentence [f ] 143 Paul KLEE : Fish-Man Man-Eater [d r a w i n g ] 151 Alfred KREYMBORG : From Manhattan Anthology [p] 152 Fernand LEGER : Composition [painting] 153 Louis LOZOWICK : Machine Ornament [d e s i g n ] 154 Robert McALMON : Extract from a Novel [f ] 155 Archibald MacLEISH : Signature Anonyme [p ] 160 : Poem Dedicated to the Advancement of Aviation ... 161 : Tourist Death (for Sylvia Beach) [p] 162 MAN RAY : Photographic Study 163 Andre MASSON : La Rencontre [pastel] 164 Joan MIRO : Painting 165 L, MOHOLY-NAGY : Jealousy [photomontage] 166 Francis PICABIA : Painting 167 Elliot PAUL : The Work of Pablo Picasso [n f] 168 Pablo PICASSO : Charcoal Drawing (1906) 170 : Pastel (1921) 171 Katherine Anne PORTER : Magic [f ] 173 Alfonso REYES : Tropics [p] 176 Laura RIDING : Sea-Ghost [p ] 180 : And This is Loveliness [p] 181 : In a Cafe [f ] 182 Rainer Maria RILKE : Autumn Day [p ] 184 : Remembrance [p ] 185 : Presentiment [p] 186 Diego RIVERA : Mural 187 Theo RUTRA : Faula and Fiona 188 : Andre Masson 188 Philippe SOUPAULT : Poem 189 Kurt SCHWITTERS : Workman’s Picture [collage] 190 Gertrude STEIN : Descriptions of Literature [n f] 191 : The Life of Ju an Gris The Life and Death of Juan Gris [n f] 194 Joseph STELLA : The Brooklyn Bridge (A Page of My Life) [n f] 196 : Brooklyn Bridge [painting] 197 LorincZ SZABO : A Quarter of an Hour Between God and the Office [p] 200 Genevieve TAGGARD : Letter from Greenwich Village [n f] 202 — 7 — Yves TANGUY : Landscape [ p a i n t i n g ] 205 Georg TRAKL : Rosary Songs [ p ] 206 Tristan TZARA : Toto Vaga [ p ] 207 I.M. VEISSENBERG : MaZel-Tof [ f ] 208 Edward WESTON : “Fragment” [ p h o t o g r a p h ] 211 : “Pepper” [ p h o t o g r a p h ] 212 William Carlos WILLIAMS : Improvisations [ f ] 213 Louis ZUKOFSKY : Poem 216 SPECIAL SECTIONS : WHY DO AMERICANS LIVE IN EUROPE? [ 1928] 217 Responses from Gertrude Stein 218 Hilaire Hiler 218 Robert McAlmon 219 George Antheil 220 Kay Boyle 221 Berenice Abbott 223 Harry Crosby 223 Kathleen Cannell 225 H. Wolf Kaufman 226 IN MEMORIAM : HARRY CROSBY [1930] 228 Kay Boyle : Homage to Harry Crosby 229 Hart Crane : To the Cloud Juggler [p] 231 Stuart Gilbert: Harry Crosby — A Personal Note 232 Eugene Jolas : Harry Crosby and transition 235 Archibald MacLeish : Cinema of a Man [p] 237 Philippe Soupault: Harry Crosby 239 Harry Crosby : SLEEPING TOGETHER 240 FAREWELL TO transition [ 1930] 245 Eugene Jolas : Announcement 245 Robert Sage : Farewell to transition (A Letter to Eugene Jolas from Robert Sage) 246 Philippe Soupault: transition and France 251 The EDITORS : The Pursuit of Happiness 252 EPILOGUE : The End of Europe, by Harry Crosby 253 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 254 — 8 — d e d i c a t i o n : To Kay Boyle - and to Jerome Gold Read about us and marvel! You did not live in our time - be sorry! — Ilya Ehrenburg — 9 — A v | U ■ f / r ( ifl i oL LzJMm , •|y >>c26lling hair and for would be j(^ybells to ring sadly ringless hands. 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