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Errata

ERRATA keyed to the biography, Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters, W. W. Norton, 2020

 As I discover errors in Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters, I will list the corrections here.

 

 
 

p. 60, Miroir d’astrologie. The sentence beginning “This portrait of Picasso” should read, “This portrait of Picasso, composed in 1928, owes much to Jacob’s knowledge of Picasso.”

p. 96, line 2. Fernande Olivier's description of Picasso should read: "wihr dark, deep, piercing, strange eyes, almost immobile."

p. 288, line 2. The phrase “them falling in love” should read “their falling in love.”

p. 346, middle paragraph. “Maurice Raval” should read “Marcel Raval.”

p. 447, middle paragraph. “Place de Clichy” should be “Place Clichy.”

p. 496, second sentence, section V. Alexandre Stavisky should be identified as “a Russian Jew, born in the Ukraine, who had become a French citizen.”

p. 518, Miroir d’astrologie, Max Jacob and Claude Valence (an alias for Conrad Moricand), was originally published in 1928, Au Sans Pareil. Reprinted by Gallimard, 1949.

p. 542, 11 lines from bottom. The sentence should read, “Jabès was having none of it…”

pp. 564, 568, 578. The French collaborationist radio was Radio-Paris, not Radio-France.

p. 610, Chapter 5, note 99. The note should read: Salmon, Souvenirs, 1:181, 104-15.

p. 615, Chapter 7, note 5. The note should read, MJ, “Différents états d’esprit, ou portrait de l’auteur au travail, ” in ms. 7198 (4) 1, BLJD. 

Chapter 7, note 7. The note should read: DT, in O, 494, 505, 507.

p. 626, Chapter 10, note 76. “Extracts from Unpublished Volumes,” trans. Alice Morning, was published in The New Age, February 18, 1915, 431-32.

p. 630, Chapter 11, note 52. The note should read: “Avis,” in O, 351.

p. 637, Chapter 13, note 27. The note should read: MJ, “Art poétique,” Écrits nouveaux 8 (July 1921): 3-8, in O, 1373.

p. 653, Chapter 16, note 188. The note should read: “Revue de la Quinzaine,” Mercure de France 200, no, 708 (December 15, 1927): 664-65. MJ was not the author of the review.

p. 658, Chapter 18, note 55. The note should read: Paul Léautaud, Journal littéraire, vol. 9 (Paris: Mercure de France, 1960), 211-12; Seckel, Jacob et Picasso, 225n3.

Chapter 18, note 61. The note should read: MJ to Grenier, June 21, 1932, in Grenier 83-84.

Chapter 18, note 90. The note should read: Maurice Sachs, The Decade of Illusion, tr. Gwladys Matthews (New York: Knopf, 1933).

p. 664, Chapter 19, note 84. The note should read: MJ to Jabès, December 18, 1937, in Jabès, 46-47.

p. 669, Chapter 20, note 84. The note should read: Marcel Béalu and René Guy Cadou, Correspondance 1941-1951 (Mortemart; Rougerie, 1979), 15.

p. 672, Chapter 20, note 183. The note should read: Moricand to Briant, March 5, 1944, in Collier, 150-52.

Chapter 20, note 198. The note should read: Pierre Colle to Jean Colle, March 16 and 21, 1944, in Colle, 70-72.

In the Index, Georges Durand and Robert Szigeti should be listed with the title of Dr.