Reflections on James Joyce
Subtitle: Stuart Gilbert's Paris journal
By: edited by Thomas F. Staley and Randolph Lewis.
Contributors: Joyce, James, 1882-1941.; Staley, Thomas F.; Lewis, Randolph, 1966-
Publisher: University of Texas Press, Austin
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 103
Subjects: Joyce, James, 1882-1941.; Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Correspondence.; Gilbert, Stuart. -- Diaries.; Irish -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century.; Novelists, Irish -- 20th century -- Correspondence.; Novelists, Irish -- 20th century -- Biography.; Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Description: Stuart Gilbert's friendship with James Joyce began in Paris in 1927 after Gilbert read several pages from a forthcoming French translation of Ulysses in the window of Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company book shop and went in to tell Beach that the translation was poorly done. She reported the encounter to Joyce, who subsequently sought out Gilbert. Their meeting began a literary collaboration and friendship that lasted until Joyce's death in 1941.

This journal is a chronicle of that remarkable and productive friendship. Stuart Gilbert records many amusing anecdotes and provocative opinions regarding Joyce's social life, his relationship with his wife, Nora, and his compositional techniques for Finnegans Wake. Also included in the book are some of Joyce's previously unpublished letters to Gilbert (also reproduced in photographs), numerous unpublished photographs, and a typically dyspeptic 1941 essay on Joyce, Paul Leon, and Herbert Gorman by Gilbert. The volume is fully annotated and contains an introduction by noted Joyce scholar Thomas F. Staley. These materials from the Stuart Gilbert Archive of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin offer new perspectives on literary Paris of the 1920s and 1930s. They will be important for everyone interested in the modernist period.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-97) and index.
"Published in cooperation with the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin."