Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature
by Lewis M. Dabney
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Author: Lewis M. DabneyEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-08-03
ISBN: 0374113122
Number of pages: 656
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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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.
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