Лучшие книги Эдмунда Уилсона

Эта книга вместила в себя свыше трехсот писем и более тридцати лет личной дружбы и профессионального общения русского писателя Владимира Набокова (как раз в эти годы становившегося писателем американским) и американского критика, историка, прозаика, поэта и драматурга Эдмунда Уилсона. В истории дружбы Набокова и Уилсона чередовались эмоциональные приливы и отливы, взаимный интерес и обоюдное охлаждение, радостные открытия общих литературных пристрастий - и куда более частое несогласие во взглядах на литературу, искусство, историю и политику, вызывавшее порой ожесточенные, не утихавшие годами споры. Темпераментная полемика о стихосложении и…

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."

Book DescriptionA neglected classic of American fiction, Memoirs of Hecate County has been overlooked perhaps because of Edmund Wilson's too-commanding reputation as a critic, but also no doubt because its remarkably graphic and unsentimental

Edmund Wilson's magnum opus, To the Finland Station, is a stirring account of revolutionary politics, people and ideas from the French Revolution through the Paris Commune to the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917. It is a work of history on a grand scale, at once sweeping and detailed, closely reasoned and passionately argued, that succeeds in painting an unforgettable picture--alive with conspirators and philosophers, utopians and nihilists--of the making of the modern world.

Originally published in 1929, I Thought of Daisy is the first of three novels by Edmund Wilson. Written while he was still balancing his ambitions as a novelist against a successful career in literary criticism, I Thought of Daisy marries Wilson's two vocations to create an unusual and revealing work of fiction. Daisy depicts the inner struggle of a young man who for- sakes the bohemian world of Greenwich Village to seek his American ideal in the person of a chorus girl. Set in the 1920s, a vital period in Wilson's life, the novel is crowded with recognizable characters drawn from his contemporaries, particularly his colleague John Dos Passos and his lover Edna St. Vincent Millay. The preface and afterword by Neale Reinitz, editor of Edmund Wilson's posthumously published novel The Higher Jazz(Iowa, 1998), set the novel in the context of Wilson's development as a writer of fiction.

The scrolls of the Essenes and the history of this Jewish sect's possible antecedence to Christianity intrigued Edmund Wilson and drew him, in 1954, to Israel and the revelations contained in the newly discovered scrolls. His resulting account of the scrolls' history and significance was first published in New Yorker, then expanded into book form, and the revised just before Wilson's death.

The truth is that the people of the United States are at the present time dominated and driven by two kinds of officially propagated fear: fear of the Soviet Union and fear of the income tax. These two terrors have been adjusted so as to

Данное эссе вошло в книгу "Краснокожие, черные, белые и смуглые" ( Red, Black, Blond and Olive: Studies in Four Civilizations: Zuni; Hainti; Soviet Russia; Israel)