Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• DANIEL AARON
• LEWIS M. DABNEY

Titel

THE INDEPENDENT RADICAL OBSERVER

Ist Teil von

• Edmund Wilson, 2014, p.186

Ort / Verlag

Princeton University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Edmund Wilson was not an acute political diagnostician, a student of comparative government, or an economist. He was, besides his many other talents, a good, and sometimes inspired, journalist who reported accurately what he saw and heard and thought. One of his observations about Turgenev applies equally well, I think, to himself. Turgenev, he said, “sticks to his objective judgment, his line of realistic criticism, his resolve to stand free of movements, to rise above personalities, to recognize all points of view that have any sincerity or dignity.” This isn’t to say that Wilson’s political reportage, especially in the ’20s