The Little Blue Light

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 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