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From the Jazz Age through the McCarthy era, Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) stood at the center of the American cultural scene. In his own youth a crucial champion of the young Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Wilson went on to write three classics of literary and intellectual history (Axel's Castle, To the Finland Station, and Patriotic Gore), searching reportage, and criticism that has outlasted many of its subjects. Wilson documented his unruly private life--a formative love affair with Edna St. Vincent Millay, a tempestuous marriage to Mary McCarthy, and volatile friendships with Fitzgerald and Vladimir Nabokov, among others--in openly erotic fiction and journals, but Lewis Dabney is the first writer to integrate the life and work.
Dabney traces the critic's intellectual development, from son of small-town New Jersey gentry to America's last great renaissance man, a deep commentator on everything from the Russian classics to Native American rituals to the Dead Sea Scrolls. Along the way, Dabney shows why Wilson was and has remained--in his cosmopolitanism and trenchant nonconformity--a model for young writers and intellectuals, as well as the favorite critic of the general reader. Edmund Wilson will be recognized as the lasting biography of this brilliant man whose life reflected so much of the cultural, social, and human experience of a turbulent century.
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The End of WASP Culture.......2007-06-22
This is a superb biography of the leading American non-academic intellectual of the mid-20th century. Like Gore Vidal today, Wilson never took a professorship at a university, never attended graduate school, never became a slave to literary lynch mobs. This is the story of the leader of a dying breed of independent literary scholars, journalists, and men of letters who dominated our tastes and the tastes of publishers for a solid 50 years. Wilson was the sort invited to the White House (Can you imagine a New Yorker magazine book critic dining at the White House today?), but made his name celebrating the Russian Revolution. He thought Susan Sontag a light weight. Having studied Greek, Latin, and French in school, he taught himself to read Russian, Hebrew and Hungarian in middle-age. His friendship with Nabokov and his marriage to Mary McCarthy ended badly, and one doubts he will fair well in universities today where literature is considered too elitist a subject for our young bohemian scholars who prefer reading the letters of illiterate peasants and the diaries of felons. Wilson attended the Hill School and Princeton University; his generation's parents had already figured out the public schools were no place for the young.
20th century lit in review.......2006-03-03
A superb review of Wilson's life and work, one which translates to a superb review of 20th century American literature in general. A bit heavy on the Princeton origins of Wilson and friends; but, what the hell, not a bad place to begin a writing life. A very good "read".
Arthur Bloom
A thorough examination of the life and work of a America's most important literary critic .......2005-09-06
Edmund Wilson was for forty years , from the thirties to his death in 1972 the most important literary critic in America. A passionate champion of modernism in Literature he in his pioneering volume 'Axel's Castle' introduced to the American public Joyce and Proust. A college classmate, rival and critical conscience for F. Scott Fitzgerald he also contributed to the promotion and understanding of Fitzgerald's work. As a cultural critic in his monumental work on the Russian Revolution 'To the Finland Station' he showed his great skill in biographical writing, and his capacity for flawed historical judgment. A person with a tremendous appetite for work, a great creative energy (Despite his addiction to alcohol) he late in life studied, learning Hebrew to do so, the Dead Sea Scrolls and wrote an important volume about them. He too late in life published his opionated and forceful journal ' Upstate' In an early novel ' Hecate County' he revealed a sexual frankness unusual for its time. Most importantly though he was a passionate lover of Literature( American Literature especially) and the kind of critic whose writing was not meant for a jargoned academia but for the broad public. His work on Civil War Literature ' Patriotic Gore' is another of his outstanding critical efforts.
This tremendous record of literary and cultural achievement is as Dabney so methodically and painstakingly evidences compromised by a personal life and character less than admirable. Wilson was an uncertain friend,and a poor husband to his four wives. His most famous marriage to the writer Mary McCarthy did have the redeeming element of producing his only son, Reuel, but was a 'nightmare'. Wilson was quick to anger,and a master of verbal abuse. Even with those he genuinely admired and championed most notably Nabakov he eventually quarreled bitterly with.
With all this the story of his life and work is dramatic, interesting, filled with meetings with the central cultural and creative people of his time.
His life and work raise and do not answer the question, more extremely perhaps raised by the life and work of a more famous American writer who Wilson did not incidentally think much of , Robert Frost- i.e. how the writer can be so good, while the person so less than admirable.
Nonetheless, for all those interested in the literary life, in American cultural history this volume is an invaluable 'must'.
The Life Of An American Writer.......2005-09-04
Edmund Wilson was the dominant literary critic of the 20th century. A brilliant scholar and writer, he was a problem drinker at best and a disaster in his relationships with women (see his four marriages and many love affairs). It is fair to sum up his life as a personal battlezone and a professional genius.
Mr Dabney was a friend and editor of Edmund Wilson's later literary accomplishments. He utilizes his personal knowledge, Mr. Wilson's extensive diaries/essays/books/reviews and other's written perceptions of him to create an exhaustive and definitive account of his life.
Mr. Wilson seems to have been as careless in his personal affairs (money management was unknown to him) as he was careful with his writing. An early advocate of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Joyce, he became a political leftist during the Depression and an isolationist due to his experiences during World War I. The reader is referred to Mr. Wilson's classic account of the cost of war, "Patriotic Gore." The reader will not be bored by this well-written and colorful life of Edmund Wilson.
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Hecate is the Greek goddess of sorcery, and Edmund Wilson's Hecate County is the bewitched center of the American Dream, a sleepy bedroom community where drinks flow endlessly and sexual fantasies fill the air. Memoirs of Hecate County, Wilson's favorite among his many books, is a set of interlinked stories combining the supernatural and the satirical, astute social observation and unusual personal detail. But the heart of the book, "The Princess with the Golden Hair," is a starkly realistic novella about New York City, its dance halls and speakeasies and slums. So sexually frank that for years Wilson's book was suppressed, this story is one of the great lost works of twentieth-century American literature: an astringent, comic, ultimately devastating exploration of lust and love, how they do and do not overlap.
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Forgettable Memoirs.......2007-03-12
First I encountered Vladimir Nabokov's gentle, sad and funny novel PNIN, then DEAR BUNNY, DEAR VOLODYA: THE NABOKOV-WILSON LETTERS. Because I had found Nabokov so very enjoyable to read and because he thought highly of Edmund Wilson, I was determined to read some of the latter's works. I shall still get around to some of Wilson's non-fiction works, but MEMOIRS OF HECATE COUNTY has convinced me that Wilson is not among the great fiction writers of American literature.
MEMOIRS consists of six quite independent and rather different stories, linked only by the presence of the same narrator and his references to life in Hecate County. The first two, "The Man Who Shot Snapping Turtles" and "Ellen Terhune," are perfectly fine short stories with identifiable themes. I especially like the first one with its message of the pervasive dominance of evil over beauty in the world of human values and its linking of evil with the idea of capitalistic profit-making. The fifth story, "The Milhollands and Their Damned Soul," while slower-moving than the first two, is also amusing for the nearly non-stop editorial comments on the book publishing and marketing trade; the reader clearly senses the conflicts between authors and publishers and feels that Wilson is speaking quite loudly through the lips of his fictional narrator.
The last short story, "Mr. And Mrs. Blackburn at Home," struck me as confused and unedifying. It contains a definite supernatural element, as do the first two stories, but the contribution of that element to any theme quite eluded me. This story is also frustrating in that Wilson has one of the characters deliver a multi-page monologue entirely in French. My own command of French is usually adequate for a few isolated sentences or phrases here and there, nor do I object to having recourse to a translating dictionary for an unusual French term now and then. However, encountering eleven straight pages of French text exceeded my patience, and most of the speech went untranslated and, therefore, unread. Is it fair to criticize an author for the reader's lack of linguistic skill? Perhaps not, but be aware that a fair proportion of this story is not written in English.
The longest story, more of a novelette, is "The Princess with the Golden Hair." It is this story that caused Wilson's book to be banned as indecent by New York courts in the mid-1940s, but it is not Wilson's detailed descriptions of female anatomy that alienated me but rather the fact that I can find no point to the story. It is, admittedly, a fine example of realistic, some will say naturalistic, writing, and the reader comes to visualize the characters quite clearly. Whether or not the reader will like any of those characters is, of course, another matter entirely. By and large, their lives seem based on self delusion as well as on their self-absorbed relationships with others. One feels the need to bathe after consorting with these characters, even vicariously.
"The Princess" does contain one rather interesting revelation. Throughout all of the stories, the narrator is portrayed as, shall we say, a theoretical Marxist, ever ready to condemn the economic inequities of capitalism and to extol the benefits of socialism. However, his relationship with Anna, the quintessential example of the exploited proletariat, leads him to admit that reality and theory have parted company, and that his assumptions and beliefs may not be as accurate and inviolable as he thought. Nothing much comes of this, and the narrator experiences no epiphany or political conversion by any means, yet his conviction in the righteousness of his opinion has developed a crack. This may be the only example of character development in the entire story.
As to Wilson's writing style, let me quote Kate Blackburn from the final story. Speaking to the narrator, she says, "...[I]f you only wouldn't try sometimes to put quite so much into one sentence-and would talk about things a little more concretely,..." That pretty well sums up my feelings toward the syntax of a typical Wilson sentence.
In brief, then, I found some of the short stories in MEMOIRS OF HECATE COUNTY to be both entertaining and creative; others I found pointless. The longest one struck me as having gone nowhere. The last one simply reminded me that I am far from fluent in French. While I am honestly looking forward to reading Wilson's TO THE FINLAND STATION, I must confess that I have no desire to tackle another fictional work by him, and I am left wondering if Nabokov's generous remarks about MEMOIRS stemmed more from his personal friendship with Wilson than from his honest evaluation as a professional writer.
Pedagogy, erudition and the focus on the canvas?????.......2004-09-05
I know too little to critique this book - a book is like a painting as we turn the pages the picture gets brighter and brighter. Most of the time the picture is incomplete and then it is our job to imagine the completion. In this canvas there are the back ground colors (in musical terms these are noises) and there are the primary characters over that background. It is important that the artiste do not mix up too much of the back ground with the primary focuses. In this book the back ground overpowers the focused characters.
We use examples to reinforce our ideas and thought and not to divert the actual discussion - in all the five stories the examples fudge the primary discussions. I never question the fact that Edmund Wilson is extremely knowledgeable but that does not mean I have to get a dose of that in every page. Hemingway's book "the old man and the sea" is not thick and there are no examples but it still captures our imagination while these five stories do not. May be this book was not for me - my recommendation is try one story and then plan for the rest of the book.
The Critic as Writer.......2004-01-22
"I took to walking in the evenings on Fourteenth Street, which had a certain animation and variety. I got to like the big-hipped cat-faced women of the photographs shown as lures out in front of the burlesque show; the announcements of moving picture palaces bejeweled with paste-bright lights; the little music shops that had radios blasted into the street." That of course is Wilson describing a slice of Manhattan during the Depression Era from his magnificent novel, Princess With the Golden Hair, which is two-hundred pages of brilliance. Vivid and stylized descriptions of 30s New York are sprinkled throughout what Wilson himself has remarked is his personal favorite of all his books. Memoirs of Hecate County consists of six completely separate stories, five of which are moderately good at best, it's Princess With the Golden Hair that carries the day.
The dialogue between him and Imogen (the upperclass woman he's having an affair with) and him and Anna (the poor woman he's simultaneously scheduling assignations) is fantastically written. At one point he remarks to Imogen that she's a beauty yet doesn't act like it. Beauties, he explains, expect to be admired and courted. She, the suburban philistine, at one point has enough honesty to remark that if he got to know her he wouldn't like her. Meanwhile, in another passage Anna concludes that poor people can't love their mothers the way other girls do because their mothers aren't able to look after them, and physically abuse them. It's this constant juxtaposition running the length of the book which makes for fascinating reading. He jumps back and forth from Imogen to Anna -- two starkly different worlds for which he somewhat uncomfortably has a foot ensconced in each. On another occasion he reflects to himself how Imogen's peers would react to the going-ons in Anna's life, the thought of their incredulous responses is almost comical.
With a deft hand Wilson incorporates into his novel such topics as class stratification and the unwritten and unseen barriers separating the well-to-do from the poor. Towards the end he finally ventures to Anna's Brooklyn 'hood and is slapped in the face with what it truly means to be poor. He later becomes convinced America's rich do indeed constitute a bourgeoisie, and that Anna's proletariat world is the base on which everything rests, including Imogen's superficial reality. He concludes on a somber note lamenting how he will never have Anna again.
Included in Memoirs is an afterword by Updike who makes two extremely pertinent points: 1.) It was Wilson's conscious intent to bring Euro sexual realism into American fiction for the first time, and 2.) Memoirs, specifically Princess With the Golden Hair, was at the time an intelligent attempt by an American male to dramatize sexual behavior as a function of personality. Also included in the afterword is a quite interesting Q&A with intellectual heavyweight, Lionel Trilling, which took place during Memoirs' obscenity hearing.
Princess With the Golden Hair works on a number of levels. The cornerstone being that it contrasts two completely different worlds in the eyes of an intelligent critic. Judging by Memoirs, Wilson's foray into literature is an easy success, and an insightful look into 1930's mores.
Ascerbic and Incisive.......2004-01-04
I had recently read and loved _To the Finland Station_, Wilson's great non-fiction work treating the history of revolutionary thought in Europe. I had wanted to read something else of his and decided to read MoHC largely because of its infamous reputation.
(For those who don't know, MoHC was the subject of one of the pivotal battles over obscenity in literature. Although tame by today's standards, it was too frank about sexuality to get past the censors of the time. The Supreme Court upheld Doubleday's conviction for publishing the book.)
I really really liked Memoirs. It should be viewed as more of a collection of six loosely linked short stories than truly as a novel. ("The Man Who Shot Snapping Turtles", "Ellen Terhune", "Glimpses of Wilbur Flick", "The Princess with the Golden Hair", "The Milhollands and Their Damned Soul", and "Mr. and Mrs. Blackburn at Home"). The narrator, a kind of educated everyman, uses his participation in the stories to paint portraits of the other characters he encounters.
True to the name of the book, a kind of magic realism swirls through the stories. Ellen Terhune may or may not be a ghost, and publishers may make a pact with the devil. But this is not an uplifting or gentle magic realism. The magic in this book is more of a feeling that people can step off the edge of the map more easily than they realize.
The book reminds me, in a way, of Fitzgerald. Some of the concerns and situations are largely the same. What strikes me the most, however, are how acerbic Wilson makes some of these portraits. I found myself actually wincing at times at how accurately he targeted common human weaknesses and behaviours. There is something rigorous and unforgiving about the narrator's look at life. It is very well-written. I particularly liked the view on relationships exposed in "The Princess With Golden Hair".
As noted, the digression into pages and pages written in French (although it only happens once) is really annoying. For me particularly it was frustrating because my French simply is not up to more than just getting the basic ideas. Still, it is worth putting up with the annoyance to read the book.
Unpleasant.......2002-09-09
The five yarns in this book, loosely linked, are very engaging and captivating - even seductive. But in the end I hated them. It's just that the first person character is a male who takes liberties in his relationships and then bristles at suggested whiffs of engagement of his partner or partners with other people - even if the implied infidelity is far from established. I find it very hard not to identify the character with Edmund Wilson himself, and then it's so hard to avoid a real repugnance for the man and the hypocrisy displayed by his character.
I have met this feeling before with Paul Theroux, even in his travel stories which are openly autobiographical. I'm sure I could never expose my thinking in the way Mr Theroux does. But, on the other hand there are extenuating circumstances with Mr Theroux and he does recognise the unfairness of his attitude, even regrets it. This doesn't happen with Edmund Wilson's character who seems not to think that his self-centred behaviour should be questioned - he's a man and he can do whatever he wants - not so those who associate with him. His entreaties to the women he seduces seem so [weak] to me - and yet they are successful in the novel - 'You know you're the only woman I've ever wanted to marry!'
And inexcuseable (for me anyway), towards the end of the novel there are pages and pages in French. I understand that multilingual people do sometimes switch between languages but I think this is appalling behaviour by the writer and the publisher when many, if not most, readers will not be able to read these passages. What are we expected to do - go out and hire a translator to translate the text for us?
The stories are engaging, even amusing, perhaps enlightening. But in the end I just didn't like them for the arrogance of the character, the vulnerability of the women he associates with (none of them stand up against him), and the self-indulgence of the author.
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The period of the American Civil War was not one in which belles lettres flourished but it did produce a remarkable literature which mostly consists of speeches and pamphlets, private letters and diaries, personal memoirs and journalistic reports. Has there ever been another historical crisis of the magnitude of 1861-65 in which so many people were so articulate?
When Edmund Wilson wrote those words in the fall of 1961, the literature of the Vietnam War had yet to be written, but his point remains well taken. Patriotic Gore is a remarkable survey of Civil War literature, encompassing generals, society ladies, and novelists alike. The readings of these works are suffused throughout by Wilson's literary attentiveness and--occasionally--flashes of humor. Of Abraham Lincoln, for example, he writes, "There has undoubtedly been written about him more romantic and sentimental rubbish than about any other American figure, with the possible exception of Edgar Allan Poe; and there are moments when one is tempted to feel that the cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth has been to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg."
Certainly one finds the books and personages that one would expect to find within these pages--Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Mary Chestnut--but there are plenty of revelations for those who are not already intimately familiar with the period, such as the possible debt the realism of The Red Badge of Courage owes to the novelist John De Forest, or the charming erudition of Confederate general Richard Taylor. The editorial board of the Modern Library determined Patriotic Gore to be one of the 100 best nonfiction works of the 20th century. Whatever one thinks of the list as a whole, nobody who reads this book can begrudge the board that decision. --Ron Hogan
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Magnificent, mandatory reading.......2000-12-25
Edmund Wilson produced this classic look at civil war literature more than forty years ago and it remains essential reading for anyone professing an interest in the great American conflict. Wilson brought much to the table: a beautiful, restrained writing style and a prodigious understanding of the civil war and its primary players. His magnificent analysis of Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs remains the best and most often-quoted ode to these books. Wilson's tribute to Grant's memoirs is the crux of the book, but his ancillary analysis of other civil war works is also riveting and instructive.
"Patriotic Gore" is not only great literature, it's truly one of the best books I've ever read. It deserves a place on any serious civil war historian's bookshelf.
If only there were more books like this one........2000-09-30
I am knowledgeable about the Civil War and its literature. In fact, you would think I'd be heartily sick of the subject by now. I sometimes feel that I have over-grazed this favorite topic. However, Wilson is simply wonderful in this book. He makes the whole antebellum era and the war years live again. His opinions are orignal and well stated. He has picked both famous and obscure books/authors to discuss at greater or lesser length depending on what he has new to say about them and on whether or no the subject in hand has, through disuse, disappeared from the knowledge of man. If you are interested in this period but are tired of the same old things, Wilson can point you down paths you could never find by yourself.
I found the introduction a little too ideological to my taste but otherwise the book is darned near perfect.
No reviews yet for poor Edmund?.......2000-08-23
I'm surprised no one more learned than I in the literature of the American Civil War has yet reviewed this book. I came to it in an attmept to get a sense of the literary quality of the various memoirs and writings left by prominent participants in that momentous struggle, after being surprised that U.S. Grant's memoirs are held in high regard by critics. Wilson's book is a very compelling read (so far - I haven't yet finished it), giving the reader a vivid impression of the ideologies of the time and the pervasive and somewhat high-strung religiosity that influenced their development. Wilson's style is a pleasure, the product of a highly attentive intelligence informed by deep, but lightly-worn, learning. It's surprising how recently this book was written, since Wilson's voice resonates to these ears (educated in the jargon and vulgarities of the late-20th-century university) with the timbre of another, more civilized age.
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The ever maturing art and ever more ambitious imaginative reach of Anton Chekhov, one of the world's greatest masters of the short story, led him in his last years to an increasingly profound exploration of the troubled depths of Russian society and life. This powerful and revealing selection from Chekhov's final works, made by the legendary American critic Edmund Wilson, offers stories of novelistic richness and complexity, published in the only formatp edition to present them in chronological order.
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A Woman's Kingdom
Three Years
The Murder
My Life
Peasants
The New Villa
In the Ravine
The Bishop
Betrothed
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A Coherent Collection from the Master.......1999-12-13
There are innumerable, many incoherent collections of Chekhov's short fiction: such is the bane of an author being in the public domain. What makes this collection superior is that Edmund Wilson, the greatest critic of the 20th Century, assembled it, and there is at last a logic applied to its assemblage beyond the crude dictates of chronology.
Wilson realized that Chekhov seems spotty if not incomprehensible when his short caricatures and romances are interleaved with brooding tales of peasant lives. Think of a Twain compilation where "The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg" and "Punch Brothers Punch" are sandwiched together.
So Wilson's collection takes the best of Chekhov's "social" tales of his last decade, stories that focus on groups of Russians, whether it be the bourgeois, the peasants, the workers, or the decaying aristocracy. In these stories, Chekhov is on Tolstoyean grounds, and holds his own remarkably.
However, this strategy means sacrifice: the beautiful, sparkling "Lady with the Dog" would not sit well in this grim company, so it is excluded.
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