JOYCE, James (1882-1941), romancier et poète irlandais. - Lot 61

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JOYCE, James (1882-1941), romancier et poète irlandais. - Lot 61
JOYCE, James (1882-1941), romancier et poète irlandais. L.A.S. to Jean Paulhan. London], April 29, 1931. 2 pp. in-8. Letterhead of the Belgravia Hotel. Restored clothing tear. Very beautiful and rare letter from Joyce about the translation of a fragment of Finnegans Wake. "[...] I had a chat the other day with my neighbor here Mr. George Moore, (121 Elbury Street, Pimlico). He is very skeptical about a translation of A.L.P. [Anna Livia Plurabelle] especially in French. He even protests with all the vigour of his 81 years that it is impossible. Please send him a copy of the N.R.F. so that he can see with his own eyes and touch with his fingers the wounds inflicted on the supreme flank by the spears of the Septuagint. I am still touched and moved by the gracious benevolence with which the great lady Anna Sequana seemed to listen to the babbling of the little Dublin girl [...]". James Joyce mentions the famous Irish poet, art critic and playwright George Moore (1852-1933) who was a friend of Edouard Manet. Anna Livia Plurabelle is the name of a character in Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake. The translation of this famous text had just been published in the Nouvelle Revue Française (No. 212, May 1931) thanks to the combined efforts of Joyce, Philippe Soupault, Samuel Beckett, Alfred Peron and Eugène Jolas among others. Finnegans Wake is an experimental novel written by Joyce in Paris over a period of 17 years and published in 1939 (Faber & Faber, London).
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