Transition (1948)

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no.1, Jan. 1948; no.3, Oct. 1948 ; no.5, Dec. 1949 ; no.6, Oct. 1950


Title is followed by year of issue; i.e., Transition forty-eight.


Editor: G. Duthuit.


V.1 -- Sartre's Last Class - Georges Duthuit -- What is Literature? (The Surrealists) - Jean-Paul Sartre -- The Pulverized Poem - René Char -- About a Journey to the Land of the Tarahumaras - Antonin Artaud -- The Ultimate Instant - Georges Bataille -- Note on Metaphysics - Jean Wahl -- Enigma - Robert Margerit -- The Philosophers' Stone of Rimbaud - Jacques Gengoux -- Books -- Ernst Jünger, War and Peace - Albert Béguin -- From Jabberwocky to Lettrism - Eugene Jolas -- Documents -- "Deliquescence" -- Literary Epuration -- Freedom of Speech


V. 2 -- Letter - Red - Henri Pichette -- In Reply to Pichette - Max-Pol Fouchet -- Apoem 4 - Henri Pichette -- "Was that all, then?" - André Malraux -- The Return - Jean Maquet -- One Cause, Two-fold Defense - André Breton -- Second Ark, Before the Curtain -- On a Journey to the Land of the Tarahumaras (II) - Antonin Artaud -- Why does one Write? - Jean-Paul Sartre -- Three Poems - Samuel Beckett -- Sartre's Last Class (II) - Georges Duthuit -- Books -- Van Gogh as seen by Antonin Artaud - Charles Estienne -- Georges Braque's Notebooks - André Warnod -- Documents -- Marx, Lautréamont, Heidegger? -- Texts by: Georges Bataille, André Breton, Max-Pol Fouchet, Henri Mougin, Jean-Paul Sartre, Tristan Tzara, et al.


V. 3 -- Discovery of Malcolm de Chazal - Aime Patri -- (Followed by: Extract from Jean Paulhan's preface to Sens Plastique, and to Malcolm de Chazal an Editorial Note) -- Introduction to Léon Brunschvucg's "The Toil Towards Truth" - Jean Wahl -- The Vampire - Noel Devaulx -- Henri Rousseau - Tristan Tzara -- The Revenge of a Russian Orphan (a play) - Douanier Rousseau -- Sartre's Last Class (III) - Georges Duthuit -- Antonin Artaud - Maurice Saillet -- Two Poems - Antonin Artaud -- Bela Bartok - Rene Leibowitz -- Bela Bartok (History vs. Aesthetics) - Boris de Schoezer -- Documents -- The Church and the French Writers -- Bataile, Bernanos, F. Bruckberger, Sartre, et al.


V. 4 -- Autumn Leaflets - André Gide -- To right nor left - Henri Michaux -- F - Suzanne Dumesnil -- Introduction to "Akara" - Yves Le Gall -- Akara - Romain Weingarten -- Apoem - Henri Pichette -- Thief's Journal - Jean Genet -- The Horses - Pierre Gascar -- Sartre's Last Class (IV) - Georges Duthuit -- Saint-John Perse, Poet of Glory - Maurice Saillet -- Georges Bataille - Maurice Nadeau -- Documents -- The Church and French Writers (II) -- The "German Question" in France -- Bataille, Bernanos, Massignon, Mounier, Minder, et al.


V. 5 -- The Work of the Painter - To Picasso - Paul Eluard -- Poems - Pablo Picasso -- Note about the Exhibition of Recent Works of Picasso - Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler -- Matisse and Byzantine Space - Georges Duthuit -- The Painting Machine - Alfred Jarry -- Braque, or Modern Art as Event and Pleasure - Francis Ponge -- Courbet: the Stone-breakers - René Char -- Picasso goes for a Walk - Jacques Prévert -- Delacroix - Pierre-Jean Jouve -- A Walk in the Woods - Eugène Delacroix -- Félix Fénéon or the Mute Critic - André du Bouchet -- La Grande Jatte - Félix Fénéon -- Sonnet - Edgar Degas -- Edouard Manet - Stéphane Mallarmé -- Three Exhibitions: Masson - Tal Coat - Miro - André du Bouchet -- Three Dialogues: Tal Coat - Masson - Bram van Velde - Samuel Beckett and Georges Duthuit -- Some Sayings - Bram van Velde -- In the Heat of Inspiration - Georges Limbour -- Paolo Uccello - Marcel Schwob -- Documents -- A pre-war and a post-war questionnaire: "Art and the Public" -- Braque,
Henri Laurens, Masson, Matissa, Miro, etc.


V. 6 -- Literature Hits Below the Belt - Julien Gracq -- Where Poetry Comes into Being - Pierre Reverdy -- Poems - Pierre Reverdy -- Nicolas de Staël - Patrick Waldberg -- Introduction to the Works of Francis Ponge - Pierre Schneider -- Poems - Francis Ponge -- Sartre's Last Class (Conclusion) - Georges Duthuit -- Chants of Maldoror - Lautreamont -- Days and Nights of a Deserter - Alfred Jarry -- Armand - Emmanuel Bove -- Two Fragments - Samuel Beckett -- Note on the Sonnets of Edgar Degas - Helen Burlin -- Poems - André du Bouchet -- Apollinaire - Gabrielle Picabia -- Zone - Guillaume Apollinaire -- Documents -- Literature, Ethics, Music and Politics -- Books

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