Книга: Robert McAlmon, Kay Boyle «Being Geniuses Together 1920-1930»

Being Geniuses Together 1920-1930

"This collaboration - posthumous in McAlmon's case - has proved amazingly successful. It gives us pictures of two lives - and many surrounding lives - from different angles, as if they had been taken with a stereoscopic camera. Thereby it gives us an impression of depth and substantiality that have been lacking in other memoirs of Paris in the 1920's." - Malcolm Cowley, New York Times Book Review There was no more exhilarating decade in the history of modern letters than the twenties in Paris. They were all there: Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Gertude Stein, James Joyce, John Dos Passos, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mina Loy, T. S. Eliot, Djuna Barnes, Ford Madox Ford, Katherine Mansfield, Alice B. Toklas... and with them were Robert McAlmon and Kay Boyle.

Издательство: "Doubleday&Company" (1968)

Формат: 155x240, 404 стр.

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Robert McAlmon

Robert Menzies McAlmon (March 9, 1895 - February 2, 1956) was an American author, poet and publisher.

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Life

McAlmon was born in Clifton, Kansas, the youngest of ten children of an itinerant Presbyterian minister.

McAlmon was admitted to the University of Minnesota in 1916, but only spent one semester there before enlisting in the United States Army Air Corps in 1918. At the conclusion of World War I, he returned to university (1917-1920), this time at the University of Southern California. He attended classes intermittently until 1920, when he moved to Chicago and then New York City, where he worked as a nude model at art school. Once in New York, he collaborated with William Carlos Williams on the Contact Review, which did not last for long, but published poetry by Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, H. D., Hilda Doolittle, Kay Boyle and Marsden Hartley. The next year, he moved to Paris after marrying the wealthy and lesbian English writer Annie Winifred Ellerman, better known as Bryher.

McAlmon became a prolific writer after the move, with many of his stories and poems based on his experiences as a youth in South Dakota.

Contact Editions

Having published his book of short stories A Hasty Bunch with James Joyce's printer Maurice Darantière in Dijon in 1922, he founded the Contact Publishing Company in 1923 using his father-in-law's money. Lasting until 1929 the Contact Editions brought out books by Bryher (Two Selves), H. D.'s Palimpsest, Mina Loy's Lunar Baedecker, Ernest Hemingway's first book Three Stories & Ten Poems (1923), poems by Marsden Hartley, William Carlos Williams (Spring and All, 1923), Emanuel Carnevali's only book during his lifetime (The Hurried Man), prose by Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein (The Making of Americans, 1925), Mary Butts (Ashe of Rings), John Herrmann (What Happens), Edwin Lanham (Sailors Don't Care), Robert Coates (The Eater of Darkness), Texas schoolteacher Gertrude Beasley's My First Thirty Years and Saikaku Ihara's Quaint Tales of Samurais. McAlmon paid for the publication of The Ladies Almanack by Djuna Barnes.

One of McAlmon's most important and best-received works is Village: As It Happened Through a Fifteen Year Period (1924) which presents a bleak portrait of an American town. The book shows his love for Eugene Vidal (Eugene Collins in the book), Gore Vidal's father, with whom he grew up in Madison, South Dakota, which is documented in Gore Vidal's mid-90s memoir, Palimpsest.

Other works include the short story collection A Companion Volume (1923), the autobiographical novel Post-Adolescence (1923), Distinguished Air (Grim Fairy Tales) (1925), the poetry collections The Portrait of a Generation (1926) and Not Alone Lost (1937), the 1,200 line epic poem North America, Continent of Conjecture (1929), and his memoir Being Geniuses Together: An Autobiography (1938).

McAlmon returned to the United States in 1940, and died at Desert Hot Springs, California almost unknown in his native country sixteen years later. In the 1990s, Edward Lorusso brought out three volumes of McAlmon's fiction (many were first American publications), Village (1924, 1990), Post-Adolescence (1923, 1991), and Miss Knight and Others (1992), all through University of New Mexico Press.

McAlmon is heavily featured in the book Memoirs of Montparnasse by John Glassco about the golden age of Paris in the 1920s when writers and artists flocked to the city.

Bibliography

  • Explorations. Egoist Press, London 1921. Poetry
  • A Hasty Bunch. n.p., n.d. Printed by Maurice Darantière in Lyon in 1922. Short stories
  • A Companion Volume. Contact, Paris 1923. Short stories
  • Post-Adolescence. Contact, Paris 1923. Short stories
  • Village: As It Happened Through a Fifteen Year Period. Contact, Paris 1924. Novel
  • Distinguished Air: Grim Fairy Tales Contact, Paris 1925 [Photo-reprinted as There Was a Rustle of Black Silk Stockings. 1963]
  • The Portrait of a Generation. Contact, Paris 1925. Poetry
  • North America, Continent of Conjecture. Contact, Paris 1929. Poetry
  • The Infinite Huntress and Other Stories. Black Sun Press, Paris 1932
  • Not Alone Lost. New Directions, Norfolk, CT, 1937. Poetry
  • Being Geniuses Together. Secker & Warburg, London 1938. Memoir (his one popular book)
  • Robert E. Knoll: McAlmon and the Lost Generation. A Self Portrait. University of Nebraska, Lincoln 1962.
  • Being Geniuses Together. Doubleday, New York 1968 (revised with supplementary chapters by Kay Boyle)
  • Miss Knight and Others. University of New Mexico Press, 1992

External links

  • Sanford J. Smoller (1975). Adrift Among Geniuses: Robert McAlmon, Writer and Publisher of the Twenties. Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 9780271011738.  The only biography of the author.
  • Humphrey Carpenter (1987). Geniuses Together: American Writers in Paris in the 1920s. Unwin Hyman. ISBN 0-04-440-331-3.  Contains an insightful account of McAlmon's life.

Источник: Robert McAlmon

Kay Boyle

Kay Boyle, born February 19, 1902 in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States – died December 27, 1992 in Mill Valley, California, was an award-winning writer, educator, and political activist.

The granddaughter of a publisher, Kay Boyle grew up in several cities but principally in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her father was a lawyer but her greatest influence came from her mother Katherine Evans, a literary and social activist who believed that the wealthy had an obligation to help the less well off. As such, in later years, Kay Boyle championed integration and civil rights. She also advocated banning nuclear weapons, and American withdrawal from the Vietnam War.

Kay Boyle was educated at the exclusive Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, then studied architecture at the Ohio Mechanics Institute in Cincinnati. Interested in the arts, she studied violin at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music before settling in New York City in 1922 where she found work as a writer/editor with a small magazine.

Marriages and Family Life

That same year, she met and married a French exchange student, Richard Brault, and moved to France in 1923. This resulted in her staying in Europe for the better part of the next twenty years. Separated from her husband, she formed a relationship with magazine editor Ernest Walsh, with whom she had a daughter (born after Walsh had died of consumption).

In 1928 she met Laurence Vail, who was then married to Peggy Guggenheim. Boyle and Vail lived together between 1929 until 1932 when, following their divorces, they married. With Vail, she had three more children.

During her years in France, Boyle was associated with several innovative literary magazines and made friends with many of the writers and artists living in Paris around Montparnasse. Among her friends were Harry and Caresse Crosby and Eugene and Maria Jolas. In 1929 the Crosbys' Black Sun Press published Boyle's first book of fiction titled "Short Stories". Kay Boyle also wrote for "transition", one of the preeminent literary publications of the day. A poet as well as a novelist, her early writings often reflected her lifelong search for true love as well as her interest in the power relationships between men and women. Kay Boyle's short stories won two O. Henry Awards.

In 1936, she wrote a novel titled "Death of a Man," an attack on the growing threat of Nazism, but at that time, no one in America was listening. After having lived in France, Austria, England, and in Germany after World War II, Boyle returned to the United States. In 1943, following her divorce from Laurence Vail, she married Baron Joseph von Franckenstein with whom she had two children.

McCarthyism, later life

In the States, Boyle and her husband were victims of early 1950s McCarthyism. Her husband was dismissed by Roy Cohn from his post in the Public Affairs Division of the U.S. State Department, and Boyle lost her position as foreign correspondent for "The New Yorker", a post she had held for six years. She was blacklisted by most of the major magazines. During this period, her life and writing became increasingly political.

In the early 1960s, Boyle and her husband lived in Rowayton, Connecticut, where he taught at a private girls' school. He was then rehired by the State Department and posted to Iran, but died shortly thereafter in 1963.

Boyle was a writer in residence at the New York City Writer's Conference at Wagner College in 1962 and then, in 1963, accepted a creative writing position on the faculty of San Francisco State College where she remained until 1979. During this period she became heavily involved in political activism. She traveled to Cambodia in 1966 as part of the "Americans Want to Know" fact-seeking mission. She participated in numerous protests, and in 1967 was arrested twice and imprisoned. In her later years, she became an active supporter of Amnesty International and worked for the NAACP.

Boyle died at a California seniors home in 1992.

In all, Kay Boyle published more than 40 books, including 14 novels, eight volumes of poetry, 11 collections of short fiction, three children's books, French to English translations and essays. Most of her papers and manuscripts are in the Morris Library at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. A comprehensive assessment of Boyle's life and work was published in 1986 titled "Kay Boyle, Artist and Activist" by Sandra Whipple Spanier. In 1994 Joan Mellen published a voluminous biography of Kay Boyle, "Kay Boyle. Author of herself".

A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, in addition to her two O. Henry Awards, she received two Guggenheim Fellowships and was given a lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Bibliography

Novels

*"Process" (written in 1925, unpublished until 2001 )
*"Plagued by the Nightingale" (1931)
*"Year Before Last" (1932)
*"Gentlemen, I Address You Privately" (1933)
*"My Next Bride" (1934)
*"Death of a Man" (1936)
*"Monday Night" (1938)
*"" ("The Crazy Hunter", "The Bridegroom's Body", and "Big Fiddle") (1940)
*"Primer for Combat" (1942)
*"Avalanche" (1944)
*"A Frenchman Must Die" (1946)
*"1939" (1948)
*"His Human Majesty" (1949),
*"The Seagull on the Step" (1955)
*"Three Short Novels" ("The Crazy Hunter","The Bridegroom's Body", "Decision") (1958)
*"Generation Without Farewell" (1960)
*"The Underground Woman" (1975)
*"Winter Night" (1993)

Poems

*"A Statement" (1932)
*"A Glad Day" (1938)
*"" (1944)
*"Collected Poems" (1962)
*"The Lost Dogs of Phnom Pehn" (1968)
*"Testament for My Students and Other Poems" (1970)
*"A Poem for February First" (1975)
*"This Is Not a Letter and Other Poems" (1985)
*"Collected Poems of Kay Boyle" (1995)

Short stories

*"Short Stories" (1929)
*"Wedding Day and Other Stories" (1930)
*"The First Lover and Other Stories" (1933)
*"The White Horses of Vienna" (1935) winner of the O. Henry Award
*"The Astronomer's Wife" (1936)
*"Defeat" (1941), winner of the O. Henry Award
*"Thirty Stories" (1946)
*"" (1951)
*"Nothing Ever Breaks Except the Heart" (1966)
*"Fifty Stories" (1980)
*"Life Being the Best and Other Stories" (1988)

Juvenile

*"The Youngest Camel" (1939), revised edition published as "" (1959)
*"Pinky, the Cat Who Liked to Sleep" (1966)
*"Pinky in Persia" (1968)

Non-fiction

*"Relations & Complications. Being the Recollections of H.H. The Dayang Muda of Sarawak." (1929), Forew. by T.P. O'Connor. (Ghost-written)
*"" (1962)
*The Last Rim of The World, in "Why Work Series" editor Gordon Lish (1966)
*"Being Geniuses Together, 1920-1930" (1968) (with Robert McAlmon)
*"Winter Night" and a conversation with the author in "New sounds in American fiction" editor Gordon Lish (1969)
*"The Long Walk at San Francisco State and Other Essays" (1970)
*"Four Visions of America" (1977) (with others)
*"Words That Must Somehow Be Said", Edited by Elizabeth Bell (1985)

External links

* Modern American Poetry : [http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/boyle/boyle.htm]
* New York review of books, articles by Kay Boyle : [http://www.nybooks.com/authors/2779]
* Info : [http://www.ohioana-authors.org/boyle/index.php]
* [http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/boyle.kay.html Kay Boyle Collection] at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin
* [http://radiom.org/detail.php?et=spokenword&omid=AM.1985.02.19.A Kay Boyle: An 86th Birthday Celebration] A KPFA broadcast from 1985

* [http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tturb/00152/trb-00152.html Manuscripts and correspondence in Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University]

Источник: Kay Boyle

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