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Tag Archives: Edmund Wilson
“Desperate Jauntiness”
His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship. — Edmund Wilson on Evelyn Waugh
“Human symbiosis”
The most complete example of human symbiosis I have ever seen. — Edmund Wilson to John Dos Passos on Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas
Commonplace
I heard TS Eliot read his poems the other night … He is an actor and really put on a better show than Shaw. — Edmund Wilson to John Dos Passos, May 11, 1933
“interdependence”
Edmund Wilson: The more we read Ulysses, the more we are convinced of its psychological truth, and the more we are amazed at Joyce’s genius in mastering and in presenting, not through analysis or generalization, but by the complete recreation … Continue reading
“setting the standard of the novel”
“Yet for all its appalling longeurs, “Ulysses” is a work of high genius. Its importance seems to me to lie, not so much in its opening new doors to knowledge — unless in setting an example to Anglo-Saxon writers of … Continue reading
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Edmund Wilson: “setting the standard of the novel so high”
“Yet for all its appalling longeurs, “Ulysses” is a work of high genius. Its importance seems to me to lie, not so much in its opening new doors to knowledge — unless in setting an example to Anglo-Saxon writers of … Continue reading
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The Great Terror Has Arrived
I came home today from my holiday to find a Christmas present off my wish list a-waitin’ for me. I’ve been wanting this book for a long looooong time. My library has not felt complete without it, frankly. And yet … Continue reading