Stuart Gilbert, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Stuart Gilbert

English literary scholar and translator

Date of Birth: 25-Oct-1883

Place of Birth: Kelvedon Hatch, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 05-Jan-1969

Profession: translator, literary critic, linguist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Stuart Gilbert

  • Arthur Stuart Ahluwalia Stronge Gilbert (25 October 1883 – 5 January 1969) was an English literary scholar and translator.
  • Among his translations into English are works by Alexis de Tocqueville, Édouard Dujardin, AndrĂ© Malraux, Antoine de Saint-ExupĂ©ry, Georges Simenon, Jean Cocteau, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre.
  • He also assisted in the translation of James Joyce's Ulysses into French. 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 Randhir Singh, the Raja of Kapurthala.
  • He attended Cheltenham and Hertford College, Oxford, taking a first in Classical Moderations.
  • He joined the Indian Civil Service in 1907 and, after military service in the First World War, served as a judge in Burma until 1925.
  • He then retired, settling in France with his French-born wife Moune (nĂ©e Marie Douin).
  • He remained there for the rest of his life, except for some time spent in Wales during the Second World War. Gilbert was one of the first Joycean scholars.
  • He first read Ulysses while he was in Burma and admired it greatly.
  • According to his wife, she and Gilbert were taking a walk in the Latin Quarter of Paris when they passed Shakespeare and Company, and saw some typescript pages of a French translation of Ulysses by Auguste Morel and Valery Larbaud displayed in the window.
  • Gilbert noted several serious errors in the French rendering and introduced himself to Sylvia Beach, who was impressed by his criticisms of the translation.
  • She took his name and telephone number, and suggested that Joyce, who was assisting in the translation, would contact him.
  • This began many years of friendship between Joyce and Gilbert.
  • He published James Joyce's Ulysses: A Study in 1930 (revised edition 1950); contributed an important chapter, "Prolegomena to Work in Progress," to Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress (1929), a collection of perspectives on the fragments of Joyce's "work in progress," later completed as Finnegans Wake (1939); and published a collection of Joyce's letters in 1957. One of Gilbert's major projects was the translation from French of Roger Martin du Gard's novel sequence Les Thibault.
  • Running to nearly 1,900 pages in translation, it was published by the Viking Press in the United States in two volumes, The Thibaults (1939) and Summer 1914 (1941).

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