transition 8 was published in November 1927 and was edited by Eugene Jolas and Elliot Paul with associate editor Robert Sage.

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Contents of Issue 8

Fiction:

Léon-Paul Fargue (trans. Maria Jolas) - The Drug - 9

James Joyce - Continuation of a Work in Progress - 17

Robert Sage - The Common Denominator - 36

Marcel Jouhandeau (trans. Elliot Paul) - Prudence Hautechaume - 45

Dawn Powell - Elegy - 55

Kurt Schwitters (trans. Eugene Jolas) - Revolution: Causes and Outbreak of the Great and Glorious Revolution in Revon - 60

Panteleimon Romanov - Black Cakes - 77

Emily Holmes Coleman - Interlude - 89

W.C. Emory - Adventure - 95

Carl Sternheim (trans. and adapted by Eugene Jolas) - A Pair of Drawers - 97

Art:

Paintings courtesy of Spanish and Indian Trading Co.:

— Snake Dance

— Buffalo Dance

— Buffalo Hunt

— Fawns and Eagles

Poetry:

André Gide (trans. Eugene Jolas) - Food of the Earth - 117

— Roundelay

Walter Lowenfels - Three Verses - 123

Michael Fraenkel - Wind Drift - 124

— Masks - 125

— Wait a Round Century - 126

— Later Wonder

— To Blanche

Eugene Jolas - Pastorale - 130

George Whitsett - Summer Stirring - 136

— Wynne Wood - 137

— Time - 138

Vit Nezval (trans. and adapted by V. Roacek and Bravig Imbs) - The Heart of the Musical Clock - 139

Valéry Larbaud (trans. Eugene Jolas) - Ode - 140

Robert Wolf - Epitaph for Lazarus - 142

Alfred Kreymborg - From <<Manhattan Anthology>> - 143

Theo Rutra - Poems - 144

Tony Palmer - Statement - 146

Essays, etc.:

William Carlos Williams - A Note on the Recent Work of James Joyce - 149

Gertrude Stein - Made a Mile Away - 155

A. Lincoln Gillespie, Jr. - “Music Starts a Geometry” - 166

Christian Zervos (trans. Robert Sage) - The Latest Works of Picasso - 170

Robert Sage - Lilies for Realism - 175

The Editors - The Pursuit of Happiness - 179

Extra Material:

Glossary - 181 - (supplementary notes on authors and texts included in the issue)