'James Joyce and Paul L. Léon: The Story of a Friendship' Revisited by Léon, Alexis

James Joyce and Paul L. L駮n (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781350133839)

Vendor: Luca Crispi
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
$175.00
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'James Joyce and Paul L. Léon: The Story of a Friendship' Revisited by Léon, Alexis

James Joyce and Paul L. L駮n

$175.00
'James Joyce and Paul L. Léon: The Story of a Friendship' Revisited by Léon, Alexis

James Joyce and Paul L. L駮n

$175.00
Format: Hardcover
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James Joyce spent the final decade of his life in Paris, struggling to finish his great final work Finnegans Wake amidst personal and financial hardship and just as Europe itself was being engulfed by the rising tide of fascism. Bringing together new archival discoveries and personal accounts, this book explores one of the central relationships of his final years: that with his confidant, friend and business adviser Paul L. Leon. Providing first-hand accounts of Joyce's Paris circle - which included Samuel Beckett and Vladimir Nabokov - the book makes available again the text of the Leon family's memoir of the relationship between the two men (published James Joyce and Paul L. Leon: The Story of Friendship). The book also collects for the first time Leon's letters to his wife in the 1940s, chronicling his desperate attempts to rescue Joyce's Paris archives from occupying Nazi forces. While these efforts were successful, they would cost Leon his own life in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camps.

Annotated throughout with contextual commentary, this is an essential resource for scholars of James Joyce and of the literary culture of World War 2.

Author: Luca Crispi
ISBN-10: 1350133833
ISBN-13: 9781350133839
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 11/17/2022
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.63d
By Luca Crispi
By Luca Crispi
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Alexis L駮n (1925-2018) was born in Paris, the son of refugees from the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. He was one of the last living members of James Joyce's Paris circle in the author's final decade.

Anna Maria L駮n married Alexis L駮n in Paris in 1979 and they were happy together for forty-three years. She encouraged this project from the start and ensured that this book would be published as a fitting tribute to her late husband and his family.

Luca Crispi is Associate Professor of James Joyce Studies and Modernism in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin, Ireland. He co-curated the 'Ulysses' at the National Library exhibition in 2004-5, where he first met the L駮ns. He has worked with Joyce's archives in various collections around the world for over twenty years. He is the author of Joyce's Creative Process and the Construction of Characters in 'Ulysses': Becoming the Blooms (Oxford University Press 2015) and is currently working on a monograph tentatively titled Ulysses and Shakespeare and Company.

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