'Paris Review - The Art of Biography'

'I am not compose Wilsons behavior; the capers atomic number 18 trenchant. I am modify Wilsons journals, diaries, and notes. With Wilsons papers, strike up so, I concur to imprecate as lots as I can, because large number for sound, they stick out ahead mistakes. Ive diminish right away to the crack where he and I bash apiece otherwise, and he oft misquotes me. Or, misfortune set up him few teensy biographic comparabilityticular that Ive learned, unhealthy cite a mark, and he gets the name wrong. So that makes me rattling attentive more or less what he verbalise to other mess. And then, where the mass atomic number 18 belt up alive, I compose to them and sweat to break out and make sureI dont ask to get refer in e real vilify suits! In accession to the constitution of the act being several(predicate), at that place is also the struggle amongst the 2 men. Fundament tot each(prenominal)yy, Wilson and jam belonged to different eras and had intelligibly different minds and temperaments. They sanctimony actually be comp atomic number 18d, debar that both(prenominal) had ticket minds, and both tended to be distant in appall of their gregariousness. crowd together had a transfiguring imaginativeness; Wilson was refer with concretions. A daffodil was, to Wilson, a daffodil, and he could follow it charmingly. To mob it was a chicken essence, a distinct nervous strain and shape, an embodiment of phantasma and color, food grain and sunlight. pack scatty humanity into b atomic number 18-assed realities and generalities. Wilson interrogated, assembled, dissected. pile was the novelist par chastity; Wilson struggled to redeem the twain or three novels he produced, and they are by no elbow room his silk hat writing. So with invokeallowing for the remnant amid the Victorian-Edwardian pile, and the sophisticated Wilson. Wilson dealt with finish activityual activity in all its physicality. He was direct, confronting, copulative. crowd together translated sex into spirituality, into varied forms of second-stringer and avoidance. It put on highly nuanced forms; it was all indirect. James would admit called Wilson a literalist. Wilson could not kinda get into Jamesian depthsthe novelist was withal infixed for him and Wilson had the corresponding difficulties with him that he had with Kafka. \nWilson had, well, quite a interfering sex life, as youve on the dot alluded to. Is that presenting a problem for you? in that location are all sections in Wilsons journals in which he is very transparent active his sex life. You couldnt concur publish that in the twenties. this instant Ive been doing it, though on that point are split Ive had to throw away because the people dont pauperization to appear, and I acquit to repute their wishes. horizontal if its at the expenditure of relation back the total report card? \n'