Axel's Castle

By - Wilson, Edmund

Floor - Floor 3

Published - Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, 2004

ISBN 10 - 0374529272

ISBN 13 - 9780374529277

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Literature, Modern

Shelf No - 3

Call Number - 809.915 WIL

Physical Description - 254 pages ; 21 cm.

Book Information

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."

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