Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938)
Autor(a) de Look Homeward, Angel
About the Author
Thomas Wolfe was born in Asheville, North Carolina on October 3, 1900. He graduated from the University of North Carolina and Harvard University. He taught at New York University from 1924 to 1930. His four long autobiographical novels are Look Homeward, Angel; Of Time and the River; The Web and mostrar mais the Rock; and You Can't Go Home Again. He also wrote short stories that were collected in The Hills Beyond and From Death to Morning. He wrote several plays including Welcome to Our City. From an early bout with pneumonia, he suffered from tuberculosis of the lungs, which led to fatal tuberculosis of the brain. He died following brain surgery on September 15, 1938 at age 37. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Photo by Carl Van Vechten, Apr. 14, 1933 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-87328)
Séries
Obras de Thomas Wolfe
Beyond Love and Loyalty: The Letters of Thomas Wolfe and Elizabeth Nowell : Together With No More Rivers : A Story (1983) 11 cópias
Letters 8 cópias
The Four Lost Men: The Previously Unpublished Long Version, Including the Original Short Story (2008) 8 cópias
Eine Deutschlandreise: Literarische Zeitbilder 1926–1936 - mit 8 Originalseiten aus den Notizbüchern des Autors und… (2020) 7 cópias
Oktoberfest: Ein literarisches Wiesn-Schmankerl / A Literary Tidbit from the Munich Beer Festival - (2010) — Autor — 4 cópias
Der verlorene Knabe Erzählungen — Autor — 3 cópias
Gewebe und Fels 3 cópias
Mein Onkel Bascom und Das Geweb aus Erde: Zwei Erzählungen mit Dokumenten zu ihrer Vorgeschichte (1962) 3 cópias
What a writer reads 2 cópias
The Web and the Rock - unusual inscriptions/ Thomas Wolfe's Letters to his Mother/ AND Thomas Wolfe - Three Deades… (1939) 2 cópias
The Child by Tiger 2 cópias
Rare Thomas WOLFE / Western Journal Daily Log of The Great Parks Trip June 20 1st ed (1951) 2 cópias
My Father's Hands 2 cópias
Gentlemen of the Press 1 exemplar(es)
The Complete Works of Thomas Wolfe 1 exemplar(es)
La orgullosa hermana muerte 1 exemplar(es)
The Wed And The Rock 1 exemplar(es)
Thomas Wolfe: Complete Works: Look Homeward, Angel, Of Time and the River, The Web and the Rock, You Can’t Go… 1 exemplar(es)
The Far and The Near 1 exemplar(es)
Tres relatos 1 exemplar(es)
Il ritorno e altre prose 1 exemplar(es)
Nézz vissza, angyal 1 exemplar(es)
The Whore 1 exemplar(es)
Só os mortos conhecem Brooklyn 1 exemplar(es)
Look Homeward, Angel: The Story of the Buried Life 1 exemplar(es)
Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe (1929-06-06) 1 exemplar(es)
Ozri se proti domu, angel 1 1 exemplar(es)
O času in reki 1 exemplar(es)
Rare Thomas Wolfe ONLY THE DEAD KNOW BROOKLYN Short Stories 1952 Signet Books PB 950 [Paperback] Thomas Wolfe 1 exemplar(es)
Of Time and the River Volume I - Books I-III 1 exemplar(es)
Christopher and Nicholas Carpenter 1 exemplar(es)
Storia di un romanzo: autobiografia 1 exemplar(es)
Judge Rumford Bland (in Law in Action) 1 exemplar(es)
The Scribner Library 1 exemplar(es)
Chickamauga 1 exemplar(es)
A Portrait of Bascom Hawke 1 exemplar(es)
Look Homeward, Angel Part 1 Of 2 1 exemplar(es)
The Death of Gant 1 exemplar(es)
passage to Engand, A Selection 1 exemplar(es)
Look Homeward, Angel; Of Time and The River; You Can't go Home Again. Three Thomas Wolfe Masterpieces. (Timeless… (2014) 1 exemplar(es)
Thomas Wolfe - Gesammelte Werke: Schau heimwärts, Engel!, Das Geweb aus Erde, Von Zeit und Strom, Die Geschichte… (2016) 1 exemplar(es)
Włóczędzy o zachodzie słońca i inne opowiadania 1 exemplar(es)
Only the Dead Know Brooklyn [short story] 1 exemplar(es)
Tylko umarli znają Brooklyn 1 exemplar(es)
Nie ma powrotu 1 exemplar(es)
El niño perdido y otros relatos (Spanish Edition) 1 exemplar(es)
O trem e a cidade 1 exemplar(es)
Das Geweb aus Erde eine Erzählung 1 exemplar(es)
Ozri se proti domu angel, 1. in 2. del 1 exemplar(es)
O času in reki I, II 1 exemplar(es)
Un retrato de Bascom Hawke 1 exemplar(es)
Thomas Wolfe: The Critical Reception 1 exemplar(es)
Thomas Wolfe´s Purdue speech "Writing and Living" 1 exemplar(es)
Thomas Wolfe: a Bibliography 1 exemplar(es)
Del tiempo y el río 1 exemplar(es)
Mannerhouse 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
A Patriot's Handbook: Songs, Poems, Stories and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Love (2003) — algumas edições — 490 cópias
The Baseball Reader: Favorites from the Fireside Book of Baseball (1980) — Contribuinte — 103 cópias
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Contribuinte — 93 cópias
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 1: The Individual and Human Values (1964) — Contribuinte — 40 cópias
Our lives : American labor stories — Contribuinte — 6 cópias
The Best Short Stories of 1936 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1936) — Contribuinte — 4 cópias
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1935 — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
The Best Short Stories of 1935 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1935) — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
Great Railroad Stories of the World — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
Kerouac Quarterly, V. 2, No. 1 — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Wolfe, Thomas Clayton
- Outros nomes
- WOLFE, Thomas Clayton
WOLFE, Thomas - Data de nascimento
- 1900-10-03
- Data de falecimento
- 1938-09-15
- Local de enterro
- Riverside Cemetery, Asheville, North Carolina, USA
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Asheville, North Carolina, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Causa da morte
- tuberculosis
- Locais de residência
- Asheville, North Carolina, USA
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Baltimore, Maryland, USA - Educação
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (BA|1920)
Harvard University (MA|1922) - Ocupação
- novelist
short-story writer
playwright
essayist
professor - Relacionamentos
- Perkins, Maxwell E. (friend)
Baker, George Pierce (teacher)
Bernstein, Aline (girlfriend)
Armstrong, Anne W. (correspondent) - Organizações
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1937)
National Institute of Arts and Letters
Pi Kappa Phi
New York University (professor) - Premiações
- Thomas Wolfe Memorial
Guggenheim fellowship
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 144
- Also by
- 51
- Membros
- 8,141
- Popularidade
- #2,972
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Resenhas
- 125
- ISBNs
- 253
- Idiomas
- 13
- Favorito
- 36
Eugene, being the youngest, is his mother's last chance to get parenting right. He's her darling and can do no wrong, much to the dismay of his older siblings. They got punished for what he now gets away with. He gets support where they got nothing or less than they needed. He turns inward and becomes the scholar they never were. He reads Latin and Greek, reads and writes poetry, thinks about Gods and mythical creatures. They are real to him. They allow him to escape the dysfunction around him. Yet as he grows he sees more and more of what is around him. This is where my problem reading this book began. What was around Eugene was the South of the early twentieth century. As I read many classics I have to remember that was then and this is now and hold off seeing their lives with my eyes. We've moved on. Yet around Eugene is so much that is now repugnant. Wolfe is thoroughly comfortable with the N-word. It and it's variants are used hundreds of times in this book. Most importantly there seems to be no recognition that anything was wrong with this. After a while I found myself shutting down. My empathy for him diminished as he showed no empathy for those around him. Disappointing. I would have loved to see this book in a more positive light.
Back to the story. The mother in her penny-pinching mode has made their home into a boarding house. Many stories surround the less than savory boarders that pass through. Mother seems to totally ignore the fact that many of the boarders are prostitutes. She sees failings in none of then, just her husband and children. Her husband gets progressively ill and is cared for by one of the older girls. The mother always dismisses her husband's illness with there's nothing wrong, or he'll survive, or that's just his way to get attention – never any empathy. This constant theme is heightened when one of Eugene's older brothers gets sick. He was the one who escaped by becoming a sailor and often was never home. As he was dying he refused to even let his mother see him. He wanted no part of her false empathy. His death brought this into stark resolution, even for Eugene.
Eugene escapes by going back to college, becoming a star pupil and preparing to go to Harvard. At the end I was wanted nothing more to do with this dysfunction. It was clear that Wolfe was an impressive writer. The lyricism of his prose reminded me of Thomas Mann, my favorite writer. Wolfe's prose was constantly spinning a situation, wandering almost aimlessly, had many unconnected observations all reminding me of Joyce. Those qualities kept me reading.… (mais)