| Author/Contributor(s): | Wilson, Edmund; Gordon, Mary |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Date: | 09/15/2004 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
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."