transition 19-20 was published in June 1930. Edited by Eugene Jolas with advisory editors Stuart Gilbert and Robert Sage.
Cover art by Eli Lotar. Note also the ‘insert’ that folds over the cover art with an overview of contents and the title: “Want Myths and More Myths.”
This issue was intended to be the final issue of transition and includes reflections by Eugene Jolas, Robert Sage, and Philippe Soupault about the intervention and influence of the review.
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Contents of Issue 19-20
Eugene Jolas - Literature and the New Man - 13
Dream and Mythos
Psychology and Poetry - C.G. Jung
Eugene Jolas - The Dream - 46
Dorothy Boillotat - Decaying - 48
Daphne Carr - Dreamed In Words - 53
How I Dreamed - Marius Lyle - 56
Norman Macloed - Dreams - 59
Pablo Picasso - Figure de Femme (1929)
— Composition (1929)
Evolution of the Senses
Antonin Artaud (trans. Stuart Gilbert) - The Shell and the Clergyman - 63
Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (trans. Maria McDonald Jolas) - The Eighth Day of the Week (A Scenario) - 70
Theo Rutra - Sleep In Ur (A Scenario) - 84
Philippe Soupault - The Mill (A Scenario) - 88
S.M. Eisenstein - The Cinematographic Principle and Japanese Culture (with a digression on montage and the shot) - 90
Eugene Jolas - Towards New Forms? - 104
André Masson - La Rencontre
Cambridge Experiment: A Manifesto of Young England
Experiment: A Manifesto - 106
J. Bronowski - Experiment - 107
J.D. Cullen - from Big Business in the City - 112
William Empson - Part of Mandevil’s Travels - 113
Hugh Sykes - Localism - 114
J.M. Reeves - Speculation in Malta - 117
Basil Wright - Postwar - 118
Julian Trevelyan - Dreams - 120
R.S. Alcock - from A Biological Interpretation - 123
J.M. Reeves - Open Letter on Plagiarism and Such - 124
Richard Eberhart - Request for Offering - 127
G.F. Noxon - We Have Films in England - 128
George Reavey - from Io Lo Sognai - 130
John Davenport - Transmission and Limitation - 131
William Archer - On Practicability - 133
Malcolm Grigg - from Harlquinade - 136
William Empson - To An Old Lady - 137
J. Bronowski - from For Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands - 138
Revolution of the Word
Eugene Jolas - The King’s English Is Dying: Long Live the Great American Language - 141
Stuart Gilbert - The Creator Is Not a Public Servant - 147
Murray Godwin - The Wires Invisible: A Tale of Two Worlds - 151
Eugene Jolas - Letter to Mr. Walter Winchell - 166
Bob Brown - Readies - 167
Carola Giedion-Welcker (trans. Eugene Jolas) - Work in Progress: A Linguistic Experiment by James Joyce - 174
Tristan Tzara - Toto Vaca - 184
Whit Burnett - An Essay in Compostography or the Life In the Day of the Squidge - 185
Norman W. Schur - Afternoon - 188
Benjamin Crémieux (Trans. Maria McDonald Jolas) - The Rule of Words - 189
Vincent Huidobro - Fragment d’Altazor - 194
Stuart Gilbert - Astropolis - 196
A.L. Gillespie, Jr. - Monograph for Harold Weston’s ‘Evo-Love Series’ - 201
Charles Duff - Handrail and the Wampus: Segment of a Polyphonic Biogriad - 203
Carl Einstein (trans. by Eugene Jolas) - Design of a Landscape - 212
Sydney Hunt - two seen andn one dreamed… - 217
In Memoriam: Harry Crosby
Kay Boyle - Homage to Harry Crosby - 221
Hart Crane - To the Cloud Juggler - 223
Stuart Gilbert - Harry Crosby, a personal note - 224
Eugene Jolas - Harry Crosby - 228
Archibald MacLeish - Cinema of a Man - 230
Philippe Soupault - Harry Crosby - 232
Harry Crosby - Sleeping Together - 233
Reality and Beyond
Bernard Fay (trans. Maria McDonald Jolas) - Essay on Poetry - 241
Roger Vitrae - Poème (6) - 248
Edward Weston - Fragment
— Pepper
— Pepper
Roger Vitrae - Poème (7) - 249
Alfred Doeblin (trans. Eugene Jolas)- Berlin Alexanderplatz - 250
Juan Gris - Portrait of Picasso, 1912
V.F. Calverton - After Dark - 258
George Gross - The Little Agitator
Kay Boyle - The Only Bird That Sang - 261
Harold Rosenberg - Fairy Tale - 264
Pauline G. Schindler - An American Major Poet - 270
Fernand Leger - Composition
Pierre Audard - Noir pour noir - 273
André Delons - Giorgio di Chirico - 273
Edgar Calmer - The Watcher - 274
André Masson - Animal Pris au Piège
Philip Owens - Hotel in Rue Mouffetard - 276
Whit Burnett - Poem - 277
Paul Klee - Man with Burden
— Head in the Landscape
William Carlos Williams - The Simplicity of Disorder - 279
Jacques Baron - Mémoratif - 287
Jennings Rice - Echoes - 288
Georg Von Der Vring (trans. by Theo Rutra) - When the Sickle Moon - 298
Richard Johns - Preparation for Arrival - 299
Paul Bowles - Delicate Song - 303
Emanuel Carnevali - Almost a Fable - 304
Dudley Fitts - Evening Prayer - 305
Charles Henri Ford - Piece - 307
Forrest Anderson - Error in Navigation - 310
J. Saunders Redding - Delaware Coon - 311
Joseph T. Shipley - Broadcasting Station Ego - 321
Edgar Calmer - A Young Man - 323
Tristan Tzara (trans. by Eugene Jolas)- The Approximate Man - 325
Richard Thoma - Death Control - 330
Claire and Ivan Goll (trans. by Eugene Jolas) - Poems - 335
Elmira Stevens - Poetry is Serious - 337
Samuel Beckett - For Future Reference - 342
Rainer Maria Rilke - The Tale of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke - 344
Pauline Leader - City, Stir In Your Dreams… - 351
Syd S. Salt - It - 352
Maurice L. Shapiro - Brooklyn Bridge: 5 AM - 353
Georges Hugnet - Cassie - 354
Max Rychner (trans. by Eugene Jolas) - Divagation - 358
Parker Tyler - Elegy for a Dead Idol of the Screen - 360
Joan MIro - Papier Collé
Charles Henri Ford - Digressive Announcement of Spring - 362
Joseph Sima - Composition (1928)
— Composition (1928)
A. E. Fisher - The Metempsychosis of Mr. Clarke - 363
Xavier Abril - Angle of Light - 267
Elva Depue - “Hate of all hard metallic sound and shallow laughter” - 368
Three Announcements Concerning the End of transition
Eugene Jolas - Announcement - 369
Robert Sage - Farewell to Transition: A Letter to Eugene Jolas from Robert Sage - 370
Philippe Soupault - Transition and France - 376
The Atlantic World
Eugene Jolas - The Machine and Mystic America - 279
Pre-Columbian Pictures:
— Mexico - Human Skull Encrusted with Mosaic
— Mexico - Stone Mask
— Peru - Head On Vase
— Peru - Terracotta Statue
— Aztec - Rock Crystal Skull-Life-Size
— Haida - Totempole
The Atlantic World
Eugene Jolas - The Machine and “Mystic America” - 379
Alejo Carpentier (trans. by Frederick M. Murray) - Cuban Magic - 384
Extra Material:
Correspondence:
— Frederick N. Sard - Let Us Have Order In Vertigo - 391
— Norman MacLeod - Letter from the Southwest - 392
Glossary (supplementary notes on this issue)