Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930, Paperback/Edmund Wilson
Descriere
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 Valery, 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.
Despre autor
Edmund Wilson Jr. a fost un scriitor, critic literar și jurnalist american. Este considerat pe scară largă unul dintre cei mai importanți critici literari ai secolului XX. Wilson și-a început cariera ca jurnalist, scriind pentru publicații precum Vanity Fair și The New Yorker.
