The Sixties

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The Sixties
The Last Journal, 1960-1972
Edited with an introduction by Lewis M. Dabney
The Sixties, the last of Edmund Wilson's posthumously published journals, is a personal history that is also a brilliant social comedy and an anatomy of the times. Shuttling between Cape Cod, upstate New York, and New York City, and taking numerous trips abroad, Wilson captures in his inimitable prose the flavor of an international elite—Stravinsky, Auden, André Malraux, and Isaiah Berlin—the American literati, and the Kennedy White House. He records, as well, his struggles with his own aging, as intellectual and personal curiosity contend with weakening physical powers and a recognition of an approaching end.
Deftly edited by Wilson's biographer, this deeply affecting volume presents the final years of one of our foremost critics and writers. The Sixties is one of Wilson's major books, a fitting culmination of the record he began as a young man in England in 1914.
"As he slowed down and... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The Sixties
The Last Journal, 1960-1972
Edited with an introduction by Lewis M. Dabney
The Sixties, the last of Edmund Wilson's posthumously published journals, is a personal history that is also a brilliant social comedy and an anatomy of the times. Shuttling between Cape Cod, upstate New York, and New York City, and taking numerous trips abroad, Wilson captures in his inimitable prose the flavor of an international elite—Stravinsky, Auden, André Malraux, and Isaiah Berlin—the American literati, and the Kennedy White House. He records, as well, his struggles with his own aging, as intellectual and personal curiosity contend with weakening physical powers and a recognition of an approaching end.
Deftly edited by Wilson's biographer, this deeply affecting volume presents the final years of one of our foremost critics and writers. The Sixties is one of Wilson's major books, a fitting culmination of the record he began as a young man in England in 1914.
"As he slowed down and his life became more circumscribed, the journals take on increasing interest, and The Sixties is the most satisfying of all the volumes."
— mark feeney, The Boston Globe
"[Wilson's journals] contain much beautiful writing and many telling vignettes that could have found their niche in print nowhere else. Their poignance, overall, stems from the transformation, by the mute years, of an immediate presentness for the writer to an irrevocable pastness for us, the readers."
-john updike Vissza