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Fiction in Review
Trilling, Diana | March 30, 1946 issue

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The article comments on several book written by Edmund Wilson. Wilson is perhaps most torturedly alert to the social-moral disintegration of the last two decades, to the disintegrating effect of awful political events upon our artistic life. He is preeminently the critic of contemporary despair, to whom the whole of our present-day culture presents itself as the record of a hopelessly dissolving society. Distinguished lot his deep roots in traditional values, he seems to draw but bitter nourishment from them. He is an instance in which a long range of profound knowledge provides none of the solace of a long-range point of view.

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WILSON, Edmund, 1895-1972; BOOKS; CRITICS; POLITICAL participation; SOCIETIES; CULTURE
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