Edmund Wilson citations

Edmund Wilson est un écrivain, journaliste, romancier, dramaturge et critique littéraire américain. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. mai 1895 – 12. juin 1972
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“In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.”

The Triple Thinkers (1938) [Oxford University Press, 1948], Preface, p. ix

“Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.”

Edmund Wilson livre Memoirs of Hecate County

Memoirs of Hecate County (1946) [New York Review Books Classics, 2004], Ch. 5, p. 340
Karl Marx, in his Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843-4), wrote "Religion…is the opium of the people" ("Die Religion…ist das Opium des Volkes"). Wilson was not the first writer to turn Marx’s statement on its head: Evelyn Waugh published a review of Harold Laski's Faith, Reason and Civilization in The Tablet, 22nd April 1944, under the headline "Marxism, the Opiate of the People".
In 1955 the French philosopher Raymond Aron wrote a book on Marxism called L'Opium des intellectuels. Hence Wilson's line is often attributed to him.

“It may be that there is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.”

Edmund Wilson livre Memoirs of Hecate County

Memoirs of Hecate County (1946) [New York Review Books Classics, 2004], Ch. 4, p. 136

“Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.”

Edmund Wilson livre To the Finland Station

To the Finland Station (1940) [Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1972, ISBN 1568495749/1145], Part I, Ch. 5: Michelet Between Nationalism and Socialism, p. 36

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