You Cant Go Home Again by
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| Editor | Edward Aswell (edited and compiled work from writings of Wolfe, published posthumously)[ane] |
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| Writer | Thomas Wolfe |
| Genre | Autobiographical fiction, Romance |
| Published | New York, London, Harper & Row, 1940 |
| Pages | 743 |
| OCLC | 964311 |
Y'all Can't Go Home Again is a novel by Thomas Wolfe published posthumously in 1940, extracted by his editor, Edward Aswell, from the contents of his vast unpublished manuscript The October Fair. It is a sequel to The Web and the Rock, which, along with the collection The Hills Across, was extracted from the same manuscript.
The novel tells the story of George Webber, a fledgling author, who writes a book that makes frequent references to his home boondocks of Libya Colina which was actually Asheville, North Carolina. The book is a national success simply the residents of the boondocks had been unhappy with what they view as Webber'south distorted depiction of them, send the writer menacing messages and death threats.[ii] [3]
Wolfe, every bit in many of his other novels, explores the changing American social club 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 "habitation once more". In parallel to Wolfe'southward relationship with the United States, the novel details his disillusionment with Germany during the rise of Nazism.[4] [5] Wolfe scholar Jon Dawson argues that the two themes are connected most firmly by Wolfe'due south critique of commercialism and comparison between the rise of capitalist enterprise in the United States in the 1920s and the ascension of fascism in Germany during the same period.[6]
The artist Alexander Calder appears, fictionalized as "Piggy Logan".[7]
Plot summary [edit]
George Webber has written a successful novel near his family unit and hometown. When he returns to that town, he is shaken past the force of outrage and hatred that greets him. Family unit and lifelong friends feel naked and exposed by what they have seen in his books, and their fury drives him from his abode.
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 grouping of expatriates; to Berlin, lying common cold and sinister nether Hitler's shadow. The journey comes full circle when Webber returns to America and rediscovers it with honey, sorrow, and hope.
Championship [edit]
Wolfe took the title from a chat with the writer Ella Winter, who remarked to Wolfe: "Don't you know you tin can't go dwelling again?" Wolfe then asked Winter for permission to use the phrase equally the title of his book.[viii] [9]
The title is reinforced in the denouement of the novel in which Webber realizes: "You can't go dorsum home to your family, dorsum domicile to your childhood ... back habitation to a young human being's dreams of celebrity and of fame ... back dwelling to places in the country, back home to the old forms and systems of things which one time seemed everlasting, just which are changing all the fourth dimension – dorsum home to the escapes of Time and Retentivity." (Ellipses in original)[ten]
References [edit]
- ^ You Can't Go Home Once again. OCLC Worldcat. OCLC 964311.
- ^ "You Can't Become Home Again". Magill Volume Reviews. 15 March 1990.
- ^ Strauss, Albrecht B. (Spring 1995). "You lot Can't Go Home Again – Thomas Wolfe and I". Southern Literary Journal. 27 (ii): 107–116.
- ^ Godwin, Rebecca (2009). "'You lot Tin can't Get Domicile Again': Does Nazism Really Transform Wolfe's Romanticism?". Thomas Wolfe Review. 33 (one/2): 24–31.
- ^ Hovis, George (2009). "Beyond the Lost Generation: The Decease of Egotism in 'Yous Tin can't Go Habitation Again.'". Thomas Wolfe Review. 33 (two): 32–47.
- ^ Dawson, John (2009). "Look Outward, Thomas: Social Criticism as Unifying Chemical element in 'Yous Can't Go Abode Again.'". Thomas Wolfe Review. 33 (one/two): 48–66.
- ^ Shattuck, Kathryn (October 10, 2008). "From a Big Imagination, a Tiny Circus". The New York Times . Retrieved Jan 11, 2014.
- ^ Fred R. Shapiro, ed. (2006). The Yale Volume of Quotations. New Oasis, Connecticut: Yale University Printing. p. 832. ISBN978-0-300-10798-2.
- ^ Godwin, Gail (2011). "Introduction". You Can't Go Domicile Again. Simon and Schuster. p. xii. ISBN9781451650488 . Retrieved 2013-03-05 .
- ^ Madden, David (2012). "'You Can't Go Abode Once more': Thomas Wolfe's Vision of America". Thomas Wolfe Review. 36 (1/ii): 116–126.
External links [edit]
- You Can't Go Dwelling Again at Faded Page (Canada)
- Transcript of interview with Susan J. Matt, To The Best Of Our Noesis radio
stricklandhourson.blogspot.com
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Can%27t_Go_Home_Again
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