For ten years, Eugene Jolas, poet and writer, was the editor of transition, one of the most important literary journals to appear in Paris during the twenties and thirties. Best known for its publication of segments from James Joyce's Work in Progress,...

As the editor of transition, the most important and influential of the expatriate magazines of the 1920s and 1930s, Eugene Jolas must be accounted a major figure in the literary history of the modernist period. As a poet, Jolas is of considerably less...

The American expatriate magazine transition (1927-38) attempted to internationalize language and literature by including material from many countries. Focusing on the policies of its editor, Eugene Jolas, this essay explores why the magazine shifted away from publishing English translations toward publishing original foreign...