Thomas Wolfe

Thomas Clayton Wolfe , an American writer, born the October 3rd 1900, dead the September 15th 1938.

Biographical elements

Thomas Wolfe received the diploma of the writing for the theater ( Master in Playwriting ) with the Université of Harvard, but without being able to sell its parts, it decided to work on other literary forms. It became teaching of English in 1924 at the University of New York, where it worked, intermittently, until the 1930, while writing and while travelling much in Americas and to Europe. In 1925, during a voyage towards New York, it met Mrs. Alice Bernstein, who became her partner during the five following years, was married and relatively older than Wolfe. She persuaded her new companion to rather devote herself to the writing and to give up teaching. By giving him a financial support, it enabled him to finish its first novel, Look Homeward, Angel . Rejected by a number of the editors, he was born in the Éditions Scribner in 1929. The book started with a scandal: its autobiographical reason was proposed, and the community of Asheville was scandalized by the treachery of one of its members who reveals the secrecies of them.

In 1931, Wolfe settles with Brooklyn, where he saw surrounded of the pieces of furniture disaster victims and very modest. He works much, in a not very methodical way and by revising his texts unceasingly. Off Time and to rivet , published in 1935, was a success. Success was continued by a number of problems, some continuations with justice, the letters of blackmail and an important argument with the Éditions Scribner. The last four chapters of You Can' T Go Home Again caused an ideological quarrel: the editor protested when Wolfe wanted to replace its prose by the political and ethical arguments. He finally changed editor, to publish at Harper' S.

In June 1938, Wolfe went on a journey in British Colombia and caught there the Pneumonie, which involved the Tuberculose. He died in the hospital of Baltimore.

Thomas Wolfe marked a whole generation of writers. He directly inspired, inter alia, Jack Kerouac and Jerzy Kosiński. The philosopher Gilles Deleuze has several times expressed a sharp admiration for his news and regretted their ignorance by the French public.

Selective bibliography

Novels

Look Homeward, Angel, has Story off the Buried Life ( exiled Ange, a history of the buried life , 1929)
Of Time and the River; Legend Man' S Hunger in His Youth has off ( time and the river , 1935)
The Web and the rock'n'roll (1940 ( the fabric and the rock , French translation, editions the Old one of Man, 1990)
You can' T go home again ( Ange banished , 1940)

Collections

From Death to Morning ( Of died in the morning , 1935)
The Story off has Novel , 1936
The Face off has Nation ; Poetical Passages from the Writings off Thomas Wolfe, (1939)
The Hills Beyond , 1941
has Stone, has Leaf, has Door ; Poems by Thomas Wolfe, selected and arranged in pours by John S. Barns, (1945)

External bonds

the Web site of Thomas Wolfe
Company of Thomas Wolfe
Memorial of Thomas Wolfe
Collection of works of Thomas Wolfe at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill

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