{"product_id":"james-joyce-and-paul-l-luca-crispi-9781350133839","title":"James Joyce and Paul L. L駮n","description":"James Joyce spent the final decade of his life in Paris, struggling to finish his great final work \u003ci\u003eFinnegans Wake\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eJames Joyce and Paul L. Leon: The Story of Friendship\u003c\/i\u003e). 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnnotated throughout with contextual commentary, this is an essential resource for scholars of James Joyce and of the literary culture of World War 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Luca Crispi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350133833\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350133839\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/17\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.63d","brand":"Luca Crispi","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44071386775807,"sku":"9781350133839","price":175.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d5523d44-ca11-44fb-8e59-d8f12249de8e.jpg?v=1685435790","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/james-joyce-and-paul-l-luca-crispi-9781350133839","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}