New Releases by Edmund Wilson

UN CLÁSICO IMPRESCINDIBLE PARA ENTENDER EL MUNDO EN EL QUE VIVIMOS, CON PRÓLOGO DE MARIO VARGAS LLOSA. «En una era de amnesia histórica, este libro nos recuerda que la historia está viva y abierta y llena de posibilidades y emociones.» The New York Times Book Review En este relato repleto de romance, idealismo, intriga y conspiración, historia intelectual a gran escala, Edmund Wilson rastrea las ideas revolucionarias que dieron forma al mundo moderno desde la Revolución francesa hasta la llegada de Lenin en 1917 a la estación de Finlandia en San Petersburgo. Es una crónica viva y de gran envergadura a la que subyace una idea singular y capaz de cambiar la historia: que es posible construir una sociedad basada en la justicia, la igualdad y la libertad. Anarquistas, socialistas, nihilistas y utópicos cobran vida en estas páginas, y sus ideas permanecen tan provocadoras y relevantes hoy como lo fueron en su tiempo. «Se trata de un libro absolutamente actual, que se puede leer y releer como las grandes novelas, y que, con los años transcurridos desde su publicación, ha ganado encanto y vigor, igual que las obras maestras literarias. [...] Se lee como una ficción por la destreza y la imaginación con que está escrito, y la originalidad y la fuerza compulsiva de los caracteres que figuran en él —Renan, Taine, Babeuf, Saint-Simon, Fourier, Owen, Marx y Engels, Bakunin, Lassalle, Lenin y Trotski— que, gracias al poder de síntesis y la prosa de Wilson, se graban en la memoria del lector como los personajes de Los miserables, Los hermanos Karamazov o Guerra y paz. Se trata de una obra maestra que, por razones políticas, fue marginada, pese al altísimo valor que tiene desde el punto de vista literario.» Del prólogo de Mario Vargas Llosa La crítica ha dicho: «En una era de amnesia histórica, Hacia la estación de Finlandia nos recuerda que la historia está viva y abierta y llena de posibilidades y emociones.» Marshall Berman, The New York Times Book Review «Muy de vez en cuando descubres un libro de no ficción cuya trama es más atractiva y más rica en su comprensión de la naturaleza humana que mil novelas juntas. Este es uno de esos libros.» Aravind Adiga, NPR «Uno de los grandes monumentos radicales de nuestro tiempo. [...] Una maravilla de minuciosa erudición, sutil estructuración, elocuencia y fuerza narrativa.» The Observer

A literary chronicle of the Twenties and Thirties from the brilliant mind of Edmund Wilson Shores of Light covers a vast range of authors including Sherwood Anderson, Ring Lardner, Eugene O''Neill, e. e. cummings, Woodrow Wilson, H.L. Mencken, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Elinor Wylie, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Andre Malraux, Henry Miller, W.H. Auden, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.

From one of the leading literary critics of his generation comes the first of Edmund Wilson''s three novels, I thought of Daisy, published together with his short story "Galahad." Set in Greenwich Village in the 1920s, Edmund Wilson''s I Thought of Daisy tells the coming of age story of a young man living a bohemian life, and of his heartfelt relationship with a chorus girl he meets at a party. Fictional sketches drawn from real-life literary figures are scattered throughout, including John Dos Passos and Wilson''s lover, Edna St. Vincent Millay. Also included in this volume is Wilson''s short story "Galahad," about the sexual awakening of a young boy at prep school. "What needs to be [said] is how good, if ungainly, Daisy is, how charmingly and intelligently she tells of the speakeasy days of a Greenwich Village as red and cozy as a valentine, of lamplit islands where love and ambition and drunkenness bloomed all at once. The fiction writer in Wilson was real, and his displacement is a real loss." - John Updike

In Edmund Wilson''s The Cold War and The Income Tax, the leading twentieth century critic writes about his protest against the Internal Revenue Service. Here, Wilson details his refusal to file income tax for nearly ten years and draws fascinating parallels between the Soviet Union and the Kafkaesque US tax system which, to Wilson''s dismay, supports a nuclear weapons arms race. "The truth is that the people of the United States are at the present time dominated and driven by two kinds of officially propagated fear: fear of the Soviet Union and fear of the income tax. These two terrors have been adjusted so as to complement one another and thus to keep the citizen of our free society under the strain of a double pressure from which he finds himself unable to escape -- like the man in the old Western story, who, chased into a narrow ravine by a buffalo, is confronted with a grizzly bear. If we fail to accept the tax, the Russian buffalo will butt and trample us, and if we try to defy the tax, the federal bear will crush us. The 60,000 officials who are appointed to check on us taxpayers are checked on, themselves, it seems, by another group of agents set to watch them. And supplementing these officials -- since private citizens are paid by the Internal Revenue Service to report on other people''s delinquencies, and their names of course are never revealed -- there is a whole host of amateur investigators. . . Does this kind of spying and delation differ much in its incitement to treachery from that which is encouraged in the Soviet Union?"

Edmund Wilson''s last collection of criticism, The Devils & Canon Barham, contains ten essays on Poets, Novelists, and Monsters Previously published in the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, Wilson''s writing featured in this volume sees the critic returning to his roots and youth, with essays on his childhood love for The Ingoldsby Legends, the works of Hemingway, Eliot''s The Waste Land, and ends with a piece on The Monsters of Bomarzo and by taking the Modern Language Association (MLA) to task.

Historical recollections of life in upstate New York from Edmund Wilson, one of America''s preeminent literary critics of the twentieth century. "What I have written . . . shows the gradual but steady expiration of the world of New York State as I knew it in my childhood and the modifications that its life has undergone. It is true that Lowville and Boonville have changed less—unless perhaps Charlottesville, Virginia—than any other part of this country that I knew when I was a child. But, as has been seen, it has reflected all the changes that, to a greater degree, have been taking place in the life of the country as a whole." - Edmund Wilson

The preeminent award-winning literary critic of the era shares his dazzling observations of the American twenties. Here is the raw side of the U.S.A., the mad side of Hollywood, the literary infighting in New York, the gossip and anecdotes of an astonishing cast of characters, the jokes, the profundities, the inanities. Here is Edmund Wilson, the slim young man in Greenwich Village sallying forth to parties in matching ties and socks, hobnobbing with such giant wordsmiths as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, John Peale Bishop, H.L. Mencken, Dorothy Parker, e.e. cummings, John Dos Passos and Eugene O''Neill.

The Bit Between My Teeth: A Literary Chronicle of 1950-1965 collects Edmund Wilson''s masterful essays written during a fifteen year span. Originally published in leading periodicals like the New Republic, the New York Review of Books, and the New Yorker , this collection features literary criticism, essays, and reviews by Wilson on F. Scott Fitzgerald, H.L. Mencken, Bernard Shaw, Max Beerbohm, James Branch Cabell, Marquis de Sade, and more.

An upper-middle-class intellectual narrates this classic collection of six stories exploring lust and love in mid-twentieth-century American society. "The devil has a field day in suburbia. The main scene of the story (when it is not Manhattan Island) is in the countryside somewhere on the commuters'' cocktail circuit near New York. Outwardly it is realistic down to the last croquet set. But it is also obviously named for Hecate, that three-headed goddess of black magic, nightmares and the underworld." — The New York Times Controversial upon publication in 1946, Memoirs of Hecate County remained banned for more than a decade before being reissued. A favorite among his own books, Edmund Wilson''s erotic and devastating portrait of the upper middle class still holds up today as a corrosive indictment of the adultery and intellectual posturing that lie at the heart of suburban America. "I have read your book Memoirs of Hecate County in one swallow. There are lots of wonderful things in it." —Vladimir Baokov "There is a true whiff of hell in Hecate County—in the low ceilings and cheap underwear of the sex idyll, the clothes and neuroses of the copulators. . . . After 1946, Hecate Counties would spread and multiply and set the new cultural tone. The suburban home would replace the city street as the theater of hopes; private fulfillment and not public justice would set the pace of the pursuit of happiness. Wilson foretold it, casting his fiction in the coming mode, of sexual candor, dark sardonic fantasy, and confessional fragment." —John Updike

The American Earthquake amply conveys the astonishing breadth of Edmund Wilson''s talent, provides an unparalleled vision of one of the most troubling periods in American history, and, perhaps inadvertently, offers a self-portrait comparable to The Education of Henry Adams. During a twelve-month period in 1930 and 1931, Edmund Wilson wrote a series of lengthy articles which he then collected in a book called American Jitters: A Year of the Slump. The resulting chronicle was hailed by the New York Times as "the best reporting that the period of depression has brought forth in the United States," and forms the heart of the present volume. In prose that is by turns dramatic and naturalistic, inflammatory and evocative, satirical and droll, Wilson painted an unforgettable portrait of a time when "the whole structure of American society seemed actually to be going to pieces." The American Earthquake bookends this chronicle with a collection of Wilson''s non-literary articles-including criticism, reportage, and some fiction-from the years of "The Follies," 1923-1928, and the dawn of the New Deal, 1932-1934. During this period, Wilson had grown from a little-known journalist to one of the most important American literary and social critics of the century.

Edmund Wilson''s Night Thoughts " contains an astonishing arrangement of prose and poetry composed by the author from the years 1917-1919. "[C]haracterized by [Wilson''s] spontaneity and wit. ... For Wilson followers, who are fondly familiar with his writing, this offers some delightful insights." - Kirkus Reviews on Night Thoughts

The author of To the Finland Station and Axel''s Castle brilliantly examines the significance of the scrolls'' discovery and their role in Jewish history with this insightful biblical study, Israel and the Dead Sea Scrolls "Reading him, it is not difficult to imagine the ardor with which Edmund Wilson pursued his complex subject; it was the kind of subject he had always liked best, involving as it did history, politics, ancient lore, and all his faculties for imaginative reconstruction and historical analysis ... No book quite like this has been written in our century." —Leon Edel, from the introduction.

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A mais importante descoberta arqueológica do século - estes polêmicos manuscritos podem mudar a História Sagrada - é analisada por um dos maiores intelectuais americanos de todos os tempos. A descoberta, em 1947, dos manuscritos do mar Morto, datados de algo em torno de dois mil anos, foi um dos mais sensacionais acontecimentos arqueológicos do século. Desde então, os antiquíssimos pergaminhos têm sido tema de acirrada polêmica entre os estudiosos da História Sagrada. Mas não foram apenas eles que se apaixonaram pelo tema. Um exemplo disso é este Os manuscritos do mar Morto (1949-1969), escrito por um dos mais respeitados intelectuais americanos de todos os tempos. O próprio Edmund Wilson esclarece seu princípio básico de investigação: "Se o Velho e o Novo Testamentos representam a Revelação Divina, tais investigações não têm importância. Se eles são obra puramente humana, então é a curiosidade humana que nos impele a investigar como foram escritos e qual é sua relação com um culto de imenso prestígio"

A first part of a two-volume collection of essays by a forefront American critic and social chronicler includes pieces written during the 1920s and 1930s and includes Axel''s Castle, The Shores of Light, and an assortment of previously uncollected reviews.

These letters outline the mutual affection and closeness of the two writers, but also reveal the slow crescendo of mutual resentment, mistrust and rejection."--BOOK JACKET.

"Here for the first time in print is Wilson''s personal correspondence to his parents, lovers and wives, children, literary comrades, and friends from the different corners of his life. Various writers and thinkers - including Lionel Trilling, Cyril Connolly, and Isaiah Berlin - take their places alongside upstate New York neighbors in this gallery of letters that extends from the teens to the early 1970s. These letters complete the picture of Wilson the man, offering unguarded moments and flinty opinions that enrich our understanding of a complex and troubled personality. Four times married and many times in love; traveling through Depression America, the USSR, postwar Europe, the Middle East, and Haiti; and writing on a Balzacian scale, Wilson as a correspondent reveals the exhilaration and chaos of being himself.".

"The friendship between Elizabeth Waugh and the influential literary critic and novelist Edmund Wilson developed in the early 1930s and lasted until Waugh''s death in 1944. Despite the cultural differences between them - Waugh as a self-educated and emotional visual artist and Wilson an analytical and learned critic with a historical bent - they developed a bond that was close if often troubled." "The present volume contains eighty-eight letters from Waugh to Wilson, plus several from him to her and to her mother after her death. Their correspondence - now at Yale University - is presented here with meticulously detailed annotation of persons and events referred to in the letters, providing a provocative look into the private thoughts of these two representative figures from the artistic and literary worlds of the later 1930s. These letters, read against the portrayal of the fictional Imogen Loomis, offer fascinating insights into the process of artistic creation in the novel; taken with the biographical Introduction and Afterword, they can shed light on many of the problems faced by literary and artistic women of the upper middle class during the depression era."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

"A selection of ... literary articles written during the nineteen forties."

The Jazz Age through the eyes of a husband and wife, doing the nightclubs in 1920s New York. They are both wealthy and he is an aspiring composer. The author died before the manuscript was finished, nevertheless the book still provides a portrait.

"The selections show Wilson''s scholarship, the maturation of his keen, expressive voice and the emergence of his humanistic concerns... A feast for Wilson devotees". -- Publishers Weekly

A quarter century of intimate and intellectual correspondence between Nabokov and critic Edmund Wilson, prior to their notorious feud.