You Can t Go Home Again Thomas Wolfe All Characters
 First edition comprehend | |
| Editor | Edward Aswell (edited and compiled piece of work from writings of Wolfe, published posthumously)[1] |
|---|---|
| Writer | Thomas Wolfe |
| Genre | Autobiographical fiction, Romance |
| Published | New York, London, Harper & Row, 1940 |
| Pages | 743 |
| OCLC | 964311 |
You Can't Get Home Once again is a novel by Thomas Wolfe published posthumously in 1940, extracted past his editor, Edward Aswell, from the contents of his vast unpublished manuscript The Oct Off-white. It is a sequel to The Web and the Stone, which, along with the drove The Hills Beyond, was extracted from the aforementioned manuscript.
The novel tells the story of George Webber, a fledgling author, who writes a book that makes frequent references to his domicile town of Great socialist people's libyan arab jamahiriya Colina which was actually Asheville, North Carolina. The book is a national success but the residents of the town had been unhappy with what they view every bit Webber's distorted depiction of them, transport the author menacing messages and death threats.[2] [iii]
Wolfe, as in many of his other novels, explores the changing American order of the 1920s/30s, including the stock market crash, the illusion of prosperity, and the unfair passing of time which prevents Webber ever being able to return "domicile again". In parallel to Wolfe's human relationship with the U.s., the novel details his disillusionment with Germany during the rise of Nazism.[4] [5] Wolfe scholar Jon Dawson argues that the two themes are continued most firmly by Wolfe's critique of capitalism and comparison between the rise of capitalist enterprise in the United States in the 1920s and the rising of fascism in Federal republic of germany during the same menstruation.[6]
The artist Alexander Calder appears, fictionalized as "Piggy Logan".[7]
Plot summary [edit]
George Webber has written a successful novel most his family and hometown. When he returns to that town, he is shaken past the strength of outrage and hatred that greets him. Family and lifelong friends feel naked and exposed past what they accept seen in his books, and their fury drives him from his home.
Outcast, George Webber begins a search for his own identity. It takes him to New York and a hectic social whirl; to Paris with an uninhibited group of expatriates; to Berlin, lying cold and sinister under Hitler'south shadow. The journey comes full circumvolve when Webber returns to America and rediscovers it with honey, sorrow, and hope.
Title [edit]
Wolfe took the title from a conversation with the writer Ella Winter, who remarked to Wolfe: "Don't you know you can't become habitation again?" Wolfe then asked Wintertime for permission to utilize the phrase as the title of his book.[viii] [9]
The title is reinforced in the denouement of the novel in which Webber realizes: "You lot tin can't go back dwelling to your family, back habitation to your babyhood ... back home to a boyfriend'south dreams of glory and of fame ... back habitation to places in the land, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting, but which are irresolute all the time – dorsum home to the escapes of Time and Retentiveness." (Ellipses in original)[10]
References [edit]
- ^ You Can't Go Home Over again. OCLC Worldcat. OCLC 964311.
- ^ "Yous Can't Go Home Again". Magill Book Reviews. 15 March 1990.
- ^ Strauss, Albrecht B. (Spring 1995). "Yous Can't Become Dwelling Again – Thomas Wolfe and I". Southern Literary Journal. 27 (2): 107–116.
- ^ Godwin, Rebecca (2009). "'You Can't Go Home Once more': Does Nazism Actually Transform Wolfe's Romanticism?". Thomas Wolfe Review. 33 (one/ii): 24–31.
- ^ Hovis, George (2009). "Across the Lost Generation: The Decease of Egotism in 'You Can't Become Dwelling Again.'". Thomas Wolfe Review. 33 (ii): 32–47.
- ^ Dawson, John (2009). "Await Outward, Thomas: Social Criticism as Unifying Element in 'You Can't Go Home Once again.'". Thomas Wolfe Review. 33 (1/2): 48–66.
- ^ Shattuck, Kathryn (October 10, 2008). "From a Big Imagination, a Tiny Circus". The New York Times . Retrieved January 11, 2014.
- ^ Fred R. Shapiro, ed. (2006). The Yale Volume of Quotations. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. p. 832. ISBN978-0-300-10798-ii.
- ^ Godwin, Gail (2011). "Introduction". You Tin can't Go Home Over again. Simon and Schuster. p. xii. ISBN9781451650488 . Retrieved 2013-03-05 .
- ^ Madden, David (2012). "'You Can't Go Home Again': Thomas Wolfe's Vision of America". Thomas Wolfe Review. 36 (1/two): 116–126.
External links [edit]
- You Can't Go Home Again at Faded Page (Canada)
- Transcript of interview with Susan J. Matt, To The Best Of Our Knowledge radio
escobedotrind1988.blogspot.com
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Can%27t_Go_Home_Again
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