Axel's Castle - A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930

Edmund Wilson

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

2004

254 páginas

8h 28m

ISBN-10: 0374529272

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."