Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson (8 de maig de 1895 – 12 de juny de 1972) fou un escriptor nord-americà que va destacar com a crític literari. Els treballs crítics de Wilson van contribuir que novel·listes nord-americans com Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald i Vladimir Nabokov aconseguissin l'estima del públic. En un article a The Guardian, el pensador Isaiah Berlin va declarar Wilson "el darrer gran crític en la tradició de Johnson, Sainte-Beuve, Belinski i Matthew Arnold... Se n'ha anat, i no ens ha deixat cap igual."

Biografia

Va néixer a Red Bank, Nova Jersey (Estats Units), i va estudiar a The Hill School i a la Universitat de Princeton. Va començar la carrera d'escriptor com reporter al New York Sun, i es va allistar en l'exèrcit durant la Primera Guerra Mundial.

Va ser director de Vanity Fair entre 1920 i 1921, i després va treballar a The New Republic i The New Yorker.

Les primeres obres de Wilson estan molt influïdes per les idees de Freud i Marx, en el treball de les quals estava molt interessat.

Algunes Obres

• Axel's Castle: A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930, New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931.
• To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1940.
• The Wound and the Bow: Seven Studies in Literature, Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1941.
• Memoirs of Hecate County, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1946.
• The Triple Thinkers: Twelve Essays on Literary Subjects, New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1948.
• Red, Black, Blond and Olive, London: W. H. Allen, 1956.
• Classics and Commercials: A Literary Chronicle of the Forties, New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Co, 1950.
• The Scrolls from the Dead Sea, Fontana Books, 1955.
• A Piece of My Mind: Reflections at Sixty, New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956.
• Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War, New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1962.
• The Cold War and the Income Tax: A protest, New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Co., 1964.
• Europe without Baedeker: Sketches among the Ruins of Italy, Greece and England, with Notes from a European Diary: 1963-1964, London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1967.
• The Bit Between My Teeth: A Literary Chronicle of 1950-1965, New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966.
• Apologies to the Iroquois, New York, NY: Vintage, 1960.
• The Shores of Light: A Literary Chronicle of the Twenties and Thirties, New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953.
• The American Earthquake: A Documentary of the Twenties and Thirties, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958.
• The Twenties
• The Thirties
• The Forties
• The Fifties
• The Sixties: The Last Journal 1960-1972, New York, NY: The Noonday Press, 1993.
• Editor, The Shock of Recognition, New York, NY: Modern Library, 1943.