{"id":1144,"date":"2022-01-31T20:46:39","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T20:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2022-02-01T11:07:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T11:07:05","slug":"paul-leon-furniture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/paul-leon-furniture\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul L\u00e9on Furniture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/whatson3.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<h2>\n<h1>Paul L\u00e9on Furniture<\/h1>\n<\/h2>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><em>\u201cAs one grew to know him, one became as it were enveloped by a fine network of half-expressed thoughts and feelings that created an atmosphere of such suavity that it was difficult to resist, all the more so since it contained no element of restraint.\u201d<\/em> <br \/>Paul L\u00e9on on James Joyce<\/p>\n<p>The James Joyce Centre Dublin is home to a table and four armchairs that came from the apartment of Joyce\u2019s friend Paul L\u00e9on in Paris. Here Joyce was an almost daily visitor from 1928-1939.<\/p>\n<p>Paul L\u00e9on was a Russian Jewish \u00e9migr\u00e9 who left Russia after the Revolution and came to settle in Paris in the 1920s with his wife Lucie. He was a lawyer, philosopher and sociologist who had published two books. James Joyce and Paul L\u00e9on first met through Giorgio\u2019s friend Alex Ponisovsky, L\u00e9on\u2019s brother in law, who was giving Joyce lessons in Russian. In the early 1930s, L\u00e9on took over as Joyce\u2019s unpaid secretary looking after most of his legal and literary correspondence. When Joyce was writing Finnegans Wake, bad eyesight and general ill health made the task of birthing \u2018the monster\u2019 even more difficult. L\u00e9on\u2019s help, was indispensable.<\/p>\n<p>Joyce and L\u00e9on met regularly with others to work on the text. 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L\u00e9on was arrested by the Gestapo in 1941 and died in a concentration camp in Silesia in 1942, but it was thanks to his efforts that the Joyces\u2019 possessions survived the war.<\/p>\n<p>Joyce recorded his own appreciation of L\u00e9on in Herbert Gorman\u2019s biography:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cFor the last dozen years, in sickness or health, night and day, he [L\u00e9on] has been an absolutely disinterested and devoted friend and I could never have done what I did without his help.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This exhibition now recreates the apartment to pay tribute to this extraordinary friendship. 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