ABSTRACT
Eugene Jolas, a book reviewer and local news editor of the Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune who had settled in Paris in the 1920s, had already been making plans for the first issue when he was listening to James Joyce's reading. The new magazine was to be called transition. In the autumn of 1926, a few weeks after the death of This Quarter editor Ernest Walsh, Jolas had written to Kay Boyle, who had been with Walsh in Monaco during his last days. Since transition was the publication in which, for the first time, the fragments of 'Work in Progress' appeared on a regular basis, this was also the place where readers taking an interest in Joyce's writings first got a real sense of the content of his 'Work in Progress'. This chapter explains the 'Haveth Childers Everywhere's (HCE) struggles with the public are rendered as a fox hunt, which suggests identification with Parnell'.
