Axel's Castle A Study of the Imaginative Literature Of 1870-1930 |
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Author:
| Wilson, Edmund |
Introduction by:
| Gordon, Mary |
Series title: | FSG Classics Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-374-52927-7 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2004 |
Publisher: | Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $20.00 |
Book Description:
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Published in 1931, Axel's Castle was Edmund Wilson's first book of literary criticism--a landmark book that explores the evolution of the French Symbolist movement and considers its influence on six major twentieth-century writers: William Butler Yeats, Paul Valéry, T. S. Eliot, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein. As Alfred Kazin later wrote, "Wilson was an original, an extraordinary literary artist . . . He could turn any literary subject back...
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Published in 1931, Axel's Castle was Edmund Wilson's first book of literary criticism--a landmark book that explores the evolution of the French Symbolist movement and considers its influence on six major twentieth-century writers: William Butler Yeats, Paul Valéry, T. S. Eliot, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein.
As Alfred Kazin later wrote, "Wilson was an original, an extraordinary literary artist . . . He could turn any literary subject back into the personal drama it had been for the writer."