You Cant Go Home Again Page Count
 Showtime edition cover | |
| Editor | Edward Aswell (edited and compiled 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 Tin't Go Home Once more is a novel past Thomas Wolfe published posthumously in 1940, extracted by his editor, Edward Aswell, from the contents of his vast unpublished manuscript The October Fair.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, forth with the collection The Hills Beyond, was extracted from the aforementioned manuscript.
The novel tells the story of George Webber, a fledgling writer, who writes a book that makes frequent references to his home town of Libya Hill which was really Asheville, North Carolina. The volume is a national success simply the residents of the town had been unhappy with what they view as Webber's distorted delineation of them, transport the author menacing letters and decease threats.[ii] [iii]
Wolfe, every bit in many of his other novels, explores the changing American society 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 "home again". In parallel to Wolfe's relationship with the United States, the novel details his disillusionment with Germany during the rising of Nazism.[4] [v] Wolfe scholar Jon Dawson argues that the two themes are connected most firmly by Wolfe's critique of capitalism and comparing betwixt the rise of backer enterprise in the United states in the 1920s and the ascension of fascism in Germany during the same catamenia.[6]
The artist Alexander Calder appears, fictionalized as "Piggy Logan".[7]
Plot summary [edit]
George Webber has written a successful novel about his family unit and hometown. When he returns to that town, he is shaken by the force of outrage and hatred that greets him. Family and lifelong friends feel naked and exposed by 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's shadow. The journeying comes total circle when Webber returns to America and rediscovers it with dear, sorrow, and hope.
Title [edit]
Wolfe took the title from a conversation with the author Ella Winter, who remarked to Wolfe: "Don't you know you can't go dwelling house once again?" Wolfe then asked Wintertime for permission to use the phrase as the title of his book.[8] [nine]
The title is reinforced in the denouement of the novel in which Webber realizes: "Yous tin can't go back home to your family unit, dorsum home to your childhood ... back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame ... back dwelling house to places in the land, back habitation to the former forms and systems of things which one time seemed everlasting, but which are changing all the fourth dimension – back habitation to the escapes of Fourth dimension and Memory." (Ellipses in original)[10]
References [edit]
- ^ Y'all Can't Go Home Again. OCLC Worldcat. OCLC 964311.
- ^ "You Tin can't Go Dwelling Again". Magill Book Reviews. 15 March 1990.
- ^ Strauss, Albrecht B. (Spring 1995). "You lot Can't Go Home Again – Thomas Wolfe and I". Southern Literary Journal. 27 (2): 107–116.
- ^ Godwin, Rebecca (2009). "'You Tin't Go Dwelling Again': Does Nazism Really Transform Wolfe's Romanticism?". Thomas Wolfe Review. 33 (i/two): 24–31.
- ^ Hovis, George (2009). "Beyond the Lost Generation: The Decease of Egotism in 'You Can't Go Habitation Again.'". Thomas Wolfe Review. 33 (2): 32–47.
- ^ Dawson, John (2009). "Look Outward, Thomas: Social Criticism as Unifying Element in 'You Can't Go Habitation Over again.'". Thomas Wolfe Review. 33 (ane/2): 48–66.
- ^ Shattuck, Kathryn (October 10, 2008). "From a Large Imagination, a Tiny Circus". The New York Times . Retrieved January 11, 2014.
- ^ Fred R. Shapiro, ed. (2006). The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Academy Printing. p. 832. ISBN978-0-300-10798-2.
- ^ Godwin, Gail (2011). "Introduction". Yous Tin can't Go Domicile Once again. Simon and Schuster. p. xii. ISBN9781451650488 . Retrieved 2013-03-05 .
- ^ Madden, David (2012). "'You lot Tin't Go Dwelling Once again': Thomas Wolfe's Vision of America". Thomas Wolfe Review. 36 (i/2): 116–126.
External links [edit]
- You Tin can't Go Home Again at Faded Page (Canada)
- Transcript of interview with Susan J. Matt, To The Best Of Our Knowledge radio
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Can%27t_Go_Home_Again
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