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Sublunary Editions, paperback

Publication Date: June 23, 2023

Publisher Marketing: Originally published in a scant edition of 135 copies, Secession in Astropolis (Black Sun Press, 1929) collects several dreams, poems, and playlets exemplifying the theories underlying the mystical brand of modernism laid out by Jolas in works like Language of the Night and the Vertigralist Pamphlet. Contents Secession in Astropolis Express Flight into Geography: A Scenario Elysian Invention: A Scenario Faula and Flona Construction of the Enigma Document Eugene Jolas (18941952) was a writer, editor, translator, and critic. He co-founded the influential magazine transition in 1927, where he serialized James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake and, with his wife Maria, published some of the earliest translations of Franz Kafka into English. He ceased editing in 1942 to aid the war effort as a journalist and translator.