The Little Blue Light: A Play in Three Acts

by Edmund Wilson

2021-01-01 07:28:58

Little Blue Light: A Play in Three Acts from the leading literary critic of his generation, Edmund WilsonThe characters in Little Blue Light include an old-fashioned newspaperman who has become editor of a literary magazine and is making his last sta... Read more

Little Blue Light: A Play in Three Acts from the leading literary critic of his generation, Edmund Wilson

The characters in Little Blue Light include an old-fashioned newspaperman who has become editor of a literary magazine and is making his last stand for liberalism; his brilliant, egoistic wife, who is at once intensely ambitious and dissatisfied with everything she gets; a neurotic returned expatriate, who has found out how to exploit his neurosis by writing; the editor''s twenty-six year-old secretary, who represents everything most admirable in the prep school and college tradition till he is subjected to the pressure of the contemporary world; and a mysterious moralizing gardener of indeterminate nationality.

This horrifying satirical play is a study of American types and a comment on social tendencies. It has something of the author''s Memoirs of Hecate County, something of the late George Orwell''s 1984, and something of Charles Addams''s New Yorker cartoons

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ISBN9780374526665
Edmund Wilson (May 8, 1895 – June 12, 1972) was an American writer and literary critic who explored Freudian and Marxist themes. He influenced many American authors, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, w...

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