Look Homeward, Angel
A Story of the Buried Life. With introductions by Robert Morgan & Maxwell Perkins
(Sprache: Englisch)
The spectacular, history-making first novel about a young man's coming of age by literary legend Thomas Wolfe, first published in 1929 and long considered a classic of twentieth century literature.
A legendary author on par with William Faulkner...
A legendary author on par with William Faulkner...
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The spectacular, history-making first novel about a young man's coming of age by literary legend Thomas Wolfe, first published in 1929 and long considered a classic of twentieth century literature.A legendary author on par with William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Wolfe published Look Homeward, Angel, his first novel, about a young man's burning desire to leave his small town and tumultuous family in search of a better life, in 1929. It gave the world proof of his genius and launched a powerful legacy.
The novel follows the trajectory of Eugene Gant, a brilliant and restless young man whose wanderlust and passion shape his adolescent years in rural North Carolina. Wolfe said that Look Homeward, Angel is "a book made out of my life," and his largely autobiographical story about the quest for a greater intellectual life has resonated with and influenced generations of readers, including some of today's most important novelists. Rich with lyrical prose and vivid characterizations, this twentieth-century American classic will capture the hearts and imaginations of every reader.
Autoren-Porträt von Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) was born in Asheville, North Carolina, and educated at the University of North Carolina and Harvard University. He taught English at New York University and traveled extensively in Europe and America. Wolfe created his legacy as a classic American novelist with Look Homeward, Angel; Of Time and the River; A Stone, a Leaf, a Door; and From Death to Morning.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Thomas Wolfe
- 2006, 544 Seiten, Maße: 15,1 x 22,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Scribner
- ISBN-10: 0743297318
- ISBN-13: 9780743297318
- Erscheinungsdatum: 25.05.2009
Sprache:
Englisch
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«Phänomenal: die Fabulierwut und Sprachkraft in diesem Roman, die unglaubliche Fähigkeit, Stimmungen und kleinste Regungen des Herzens festzuhalten. Schau heimwärts, Engel ist ein großer schwarzer Diamant, den man zwischen Staunen und Schrecken, zwischen Bewunderung und Lachen liest und in der Erkenntnis, dass wir alle Kinder der Familie Gant sind.» (Arno Geiger)
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"In 1949, when I was sixteen, I stumbled on Thomas Wolfe, who died at thirty-eight in 1938, and who made numerous adolescents aside from me devotees of literature for life. In Wolfe, everything was heroically outsized, whether it was the voracious appetite for experience of Eugene Gant, the hero of his first two novels, or of George Webber, the hero of his last two. The hero's loneliness, his egocentrism, his sprawling consciousness gave rise to a tone of elegiac lyricism that was endlessly sustained by the raw yearning for an epic existence-for an epic American existence. And, in those postwar years, what imaginative young reader didn't yearn for that?" Philip Roth
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