Abstract
Maria McDonald Jolas, a member of a distinguished Kentucky family and cofounder with Eugene Jolas of international literary journal transition, has been called a survivor of heroic generation and, somewhat to her discomfort, the leading lady of Paris literati of Thirties. Her memoir and other writings, edited and introduced by Mary Ann Caws, reveal truth in those accolades as well as measure of her contribution to our understanding of modernism. Completing portrait of her family's life begun in her husband's autobiography, Man from Babel, this volume sheds light on remarkable achievements of other half of a celebrated partnership. As one of primary forces behind transition, Maria Jolas helped introduce world to twentieth-century's literary avant-garde, among them Gertrude Stein, Archibald MacLeish, Allen Tate, Ernest Hemingway, Samuel Beckett, William Carlos Williams, and James Joyce. A skillful translator, Jolas is renowned for her renderings of Gaston Bachelard's philosophical texts, Nathalie Sarraute's novels and plays, and works by Joyce. In addition, Jolas founded an influential school, Ecole Bilingue in France, and celebra
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