Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress.

Beckett, Samuel; Marcel Brion; Frank Budgen; Stuart Gilbert; Eugene Jolas; Victor Llona; Robert McAlmon; Thomas McGreevy; Elliot Paul; John Rodker; Robert Sage; William Carlos Williams; G.V.L. Slingsby; Vladimir Dixon [James Joyce]

Published by Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1929

About this Item

First limited British edition of this collection of critical essays and two letters on James Joyce's book Finnegans Wake. Small octavo, original publisher's cloth. Boldly signed by Samuel Beckett and Marcel Brion on the half-title page, and additionally signed by Beckett above the title of his essay. Samuel Beckett and Marcel Brion both personally knew James Joyce and were early defenders of his experimental work 'Finnegans Wake.' Beckett, a close associate of Joyce in Paris, assisted him with research and contributed an essay to 'Our Exagmination.' Marcel Brion, though more distant, also knew Joyce and played a key role in promoting Finnegans Wake to a French audience, offering interpretive insights that helped frame its reception within European modernism. He also contributed an essay to 'Our Exagmination.' One of 96 numbered copies, this example is unnumbered. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Letters of Protest by G.V.L. Slingsby and Vladimir Dixon. From the collection of Robert Duncan. Rare. Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress (1929) is a landmark critical volume that offers some of the earliest responses to James Joyceâ s Finnegans Wake, then still unpublished and known only as Work in Progress. Comprising essays by a range of writersâ "including Samuel Beckett, William Carlos Williams, and Stuart Gilbertâ "the collection attempts to grapple with the experimental form, linguistic density, and philosophical ambition of Joyceâ s evolving text. While some essays offer praise and others express bafflement, the volume as a whole reflects the modernist fascination with Joyceâ s radical departure from conventional narrative.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress.
• Publisher: Faber and Faber Limited, London
• Publication Date: 1929
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • First Edition