"To the Finland Station": Wilson and Lenin's Birthplace
Just started the third and final section (I know, it's taking me forever). Wilson writes very sympathetically--almost to the point of Nabokov's take on "poshlust"--re Lenin's childhood. He also writes as though he'd actually been to Lenin's birthplace (turned into a museum) in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk).
Apparently he had:
Apparently he had:
[From "'Edmund Wilson': American Critic" by Colm Toibin,
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Note:
Apparently the birthplace/museum is still in operation:
Though, perhaps, the museum is no longer getting its former respect:
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