transition 5 was published in August 1927. This issue was edited by Eugene Jolas and Elliot Paul.

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Contents of Issue 5

Fiction:

Ernest Hemingway - Hills Like White Elephants - 9

James Joyce - Continuation of a Work in Progress - 15

Gottfried Benn - The Birthday - 32

Ruth Pine Furniss - Clay - 45

Marcel Noll (trans. Elliot Paul) - From a Notebook - 50

Hjalmar Söderberg - A Cup of Tea - 57

A Rondo - Elliot Paul - 61

Robert McAlmon - Extract from a Novel - 66

R. Ellsworth Larsson - Horses in Mist - 74

Genevieve Taggard - The Plague - 77

Vladimir Lidin (trans. Sofia Himmel) - The Sixth Door - 84

Art:

Pablo Picasso - Painting

Statue de la Mort Violente (Aztèque)

Zapothéque

Poetry:

Eugen Jolas - Four Poems from “Vaudeville”

— The Mississippi Boat - 97

— Transcendental Feature Film - 98

— Acrobats - 100

— Express - 101

Bravig Imbs - Canticle - 102

— Recitative - 103

— Your Hands Are Not Hawthorn - 105

A.S.J. Tessimond - Apologia - 106

Paul Eluard (trans. Eugene Jolas) - Drinking - 108

— Untitled - 109

Emily Holmes Coleman - Invocation - 110

— Paris Roofs - 111

— Thunderstorm Brooding - 112

— Young Orchard in Spring - 113

Kay Boyle - And Winter - 114

H.B. Armitage - Love Song - 115

Horace Gregory - Pronoun ‘I’ - 116

Josef Wittlin (trans. J. Jaryczower) - Fear of Death - 120

Else Lasker-Schüler - Farewell - 122

Blanche Matthias - The Formless Ones on Carmel Point - 123

— You Left Drink in Your Cup - 124

— The Responsibility of Being Loveless - 125

— The Alter Stone - 126

Essays, etc.:

André Breton (trans. Eugene Jolas) - Introduction to the Discourse on the Dearth of Reality - 129

Eugene Jolas - Gottfried Benn

Robert Sage - The Young European (Review of Le Jeane Européen by Drieu La Rochelle) - 150

Elliot Paul - Hands Off the Dike - 155

— Simultaneity in Modern Russia - 159

Extra Material:

Glossary - 163 - (supplementary notes on authors and texts included in the issue)