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

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 Val駻y, 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."

Author: Edmund Wilson
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 09/15/2004
Series: FSG Classics
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780374529277