Originally published in 1929, I Thought of Daisy is the Þrst of three novels by Edmund Wilson. Written while he was still balancing his ambitions as a novelist against a successful career in literary criticism, I Thought of Daisy marries Wilson's two vocations to create an unusual and revealing work of Þction. Daisy depicts the inner struggle of a young man who for- sakes the bohemian world of Greenwich Village to seek his American ideal in the person of a chorus girl. Set in the 1920s, a vital period in Wilson's life, the novel is crowded with recognizable characters drawn from his contemporaries, particularly his colleague John Dos Passos and his lover Edna St. Vincent Millay. The preface and afterword by Neale Reinitz, editor of Edmund Wilson's posthumously published novel The Higher Jazz(Iowa, 1998), set the novel in the context of Wilson's development as a writer of Þction.
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“...The fiction writer in Wilson was real, and his displacement is a real loss.” -- John Updike in Hugging the Shore.
“What needs to be [said] is how good, if ungainly, Daisy is, how charmingly and intelligently she tells of the speakeasy days (..)" -- John Updike in Hugging the Shore.
“What needs to be [said] is how good, if ungainly, Daisy is, how charmingly and intelligently she tells of the speakeasy days (..)" -- John Updike in Hugging the Shore.
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Published in 1929, this is the best of Edmund Wilson's three novels. F. Scott FitzGerald thought it under-appreciated. Rather formulaic or schematic in its structure. Each of the five sections is written from a slightly different POV.
I would hope that this novel is widely taught in creative writing programs because it has much to offer as a learning tool. I bet Truman Capote created his character, Holly Golightly in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" directly from Daisy.
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