When I See You Again Right Version

You Can't Go Home Again

First edition comprehend
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 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by Thomas Wolfe published posthumously in 1940, extracted by his editor, Edward Aswell, from the contents of his vast unpublished manuscript The October Fair.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 Stone, which, along with the collection The Hills Beyond, was extracted from the same manuscript.

The novel tells the story of George Webber, a fledgling author, who writes a volume that makes frequent references to his home town of Libya Hill which was actually Asheville, North Carolina. The book is a national success only the residents of the town had been unhappy with what they view every bit Webber's distorted delineation of them, send the writer menacing letters and death threats.^{[2] [iii]}

Wolfe, as in many of his other novels, explores the irresolute American society of the 1920s/30s, including the stock market crash, the illusion of prosperity, and the unfair passing of fourth dimension which prevents Webber always beingness able to return "home once again". In parallel to Wolfe's human relationship with the Us, the novel details his disillusionment with Federal republic of germany during the rise of Nazism.^{[4] [5]} Wolfe scholar Jon Dawson argues that the ii themes are connected nigh firmly past Wolfe'south critique of capitalism and comparing between the rise of capitalist enterprise in the United States in the 1920s and the ascent of fascism in Germany during the same period.^[half-dozen]

The artist Alexander Calder appears, fictionalized as "Piggy Logan".^[7]

Plot summary [edit]

George Webber has written a successful novel about his family and hometown. When he returns to that town, he is shaken by the strength 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 journey comes full circle when Webber returns to America and rediscovers it with love, sorrow, and hope.

Championship [edit]

Wolfe took the title from a conversation with the author Ella Winter, who remarked to Wolfe: "Don't you know y'all can't go dwelling over again?" Wolfe then asked Winter for permission to use the phrase as the title of his book.^{[8] [ix]}

The championship is reinforced in the denouement of the novel in which Webber realizes: "Yous can't go back home to your family, back habitation to your childhood ... back home to a swain'due south dreams of glory and of fame ... back home to places in the country, back dwelling to the former forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting, simply which are changing all the fourth dimension – back home to the escapes of Time and Memory." (Ellipses in original)^[10]

References [edit]

1. ^ You Tin can't Go Home Again. OCLC Worldcat. OCLC 964311.
2. ^ "You Can't Go Home Again". Magill Book Reviews. xv March 1990.
3. ^ Strauss, Albrecht B. (Spring 1995). "You lot Can't Get Dwelling Once again – Thomas Wolfe and I". Southern Literary Journal. 27 (2): 107–116.
4. ^ Godwin, Rebecca (2009). "'You Tin can't Become Dwelling house Again': Does Nazism Really Transform Wolfe'south Romanticism?". Thomas Wolfe Review. 33 (1/two): 24–31.
5. ^ Hovis, George (2009). "Beyond the Lost Generation: The Death of Egotism in 'Y'all Can't Get Home Again.'". Thomas Wolfe Review. 33 (2): 32–47.
6. ^ Dawson, John (2009). "Await Outward, Thomas: Social Criticism as Unifying Element in 'You Tin't Go Home Again.'". Thomas Wolfe Review. 33 (1/2): 48–66.
7. ^ Shattuck, Kathryn (October ten, 2008). "From a Big Imagination, a Tiny Circus". The New York Times . Retrieved January 11, 2014.
8. ^ Fred R. Shapiro, ed. (2006). The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. p. 832. ISBN978-0-300-10798-two.
9. ^ Godwin, Gail (2011). "Introduction". You Tin't Get Home Again. Simon and Schuster. p. xii. ISBN9781451650488 . Retrieved 2013-03-05 .
10. ^ Madden, David (2012). "'You Can't Go Home Once again': Thomas Wolfe'due south Vision of America". Thomas Wolfe Review. 36 (one/2): 116–126.

External links [edit]

• You Can't Go Dwelling Once more at Faded Page (Canada)
• Transcript of interview with Susan J. Matt, To The Best Of Our Knowledge radio

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Can%27t_Go_Home_Again

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