transition 11 was published in February 1928. This issue was edited by Eugene Jolas and Elliot Paul with associate editor Robert Sage.

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Contents of Issue 11

Fiction:

James Joyce - Continuation of a Work in Progress - 7

Djuna Barnes - Elsa Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven - 19 (an obituary)

Elsa Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven - Selections from the Letters of Elsa Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven - 20

Stuart Gilbert - Desiderata - 31

Franz Kafka (trans. and adapted by Eugene Jolas) - The Sentence - 35

Maive Sage - Thus - 48

Elliot Paul - The Ninety and Nine: A Scenario - 51

Léon-Paul Fargue (trans. Maria McDonald Jolas) - Tumult - 59

William Closson Emory - Election Day - 63

Leigh Hoffman - Anamnesis - 65

Arthur Power - The Drapier Letters - 71

Art:

E.H.P. - The books on modern painting are so vague… - 90

Death Mask of Elsa Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven

Unknown - Photograph

Pablo Picasso - Painting

Yves Tanguy - Painting

Poetry:

St.-J. Perse (trans. Eugene Jolas) - From: To Celebrate a Childhood - 93

— From: Eulogies - 99

— The Wall - 102

— The Town - 103

Comte de Lautréamont (Isidore Ducasse) (trans. Harry Crosby) - From: The Prefaces to a Future Book - 106

Essays, etc.:

Eugene Jolas - The Revolution of Language and James Joyce - 109

Yvor Winters - The Indian in English - 117

Robert Sage - Williams as the Crow Flies - 126

Théo van Doesburg (trans. Robert Sage) - Avant-Garde Literature in Holland - 135

Bernard Fay (Maria McDonald Jolas) - Travel and Flight - 141

Extra Material:

Glossary - 151 - (supplementary notes on authors and texts included in the issue)