Edmund Wilson

"Happily sunk in Balzac again" was one of Edmund Wilson's last journal entries.

Life Without Chekhov Would Be A Mistake

 

Balzac

 

Before I read any of Balzac's novels, I read Stefan Zweig's biography of the writer, which I purchased in a used bookstore in Pittsburgh for $1.00. Bob Dylan said that the point of life is not to find yourself but to invent yourself and this Balzac did with abandon. After reading Zweig, I began to work my way through the Comedie Humaine.

The Works

 

 

                                        Read Dialectically.

Emersonian Gnosis

 

Triumph Over Ignorance

                                             Sebastiano Ricci, 18th CE

 

The search for Naguib Mahfouz