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4 unusual facts about Stuart Gilbert


Eugene Jolas

An essay on James Joyce in Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress (1929), a collection on Joyce that also included contributions from Samuel Beckett, Stuart Gilbert, Robert McAlmon, William Carlos Williams.

Stuart Gilbert

Some typescript pages of a French translation of Ulysses by Auguste Morel and Valery Larbaud were being advertised in the window, and Gilbert noted that there were several serious errors in the French rendering.

He was born at Kelvedon Hatch, Essex, on 25 October 1883, the only son of a retired army officer, Arthur Stronge Gilbert, and Melvina (daughter of the Raja of Kapurthala).

The Airing of Grievances

"No Future Part Two: The Days After No Future" ends with a reading from The Stranger by Albert Camus, as translated by Stuart Gilbert.



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