Books in the Henry McBride in Modernism & Modernity (YUP) series

This autobiography of Eugene Jolas, the editor of the American literary magazine "Transition", provides details about modernist figures such as Joyce and Hemingway, and about the political and social concerns of the Surrealists, Expressionists, and other literary figures of the 1920s and 1930s.

A collection of letters written by Henry McBride, who became a towering figure in art criticism during a long career beginning in 1913. In the letters, McBride describes some of the most important events and personalities of 20th-century modernism.

In this novel, Svevo tells the story of the amorous entanglement of Emilio, a failed writer already old at 35, and Angiolina, a seductively beautiful but promiscuous young woman. A study in jealousy and self torment, the novel is suffused with a tragic sense of existence.