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128 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2018
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Thomas Wolfe
417 books1,145 followersPeople best know American writer Thomas Clayton Wolfe for his autobiographical novels, including
Look Homeward, Angel
(1929) and the posthumously published
You Can't Go Home Again
(1940).
Wolfe wrote four lengthy novels and many short stories, dramatic works and novellas. He mixed highly original, poetic, rhapsodic, and impressionistic prose with autobiographical writing. Wolfe wrote and published books that vividly reflect on American culture and the mores, filtered through his sensitive, sophisticated and hyper-analytical perspective. People widely knew him during his own lifetime.
Wolfe inspired the works of many other authors, including Betty Smith with A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Robert Morgan with Gap Creek; Pat Conroy, author of Prince of Tides, said, "My writing career began the instant I finished Look Homeward, Angel." Jack Kerouac idolized Wolfe. Wolfe influenced Ray Bradbury, who included Wolfe as a character in his books.
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Wolfe wrote four lengthy novels and many short stories, dramatic works and novellas. He mixed highly original, poetic, rhapsodic, and impressionistic prose with autobiographical writing. Wolfe wrote and published books that vividly reflect on American culture and the mores, filtered through his sensitive, sophisticated and hyper-analytical perspective. People widely knew him during his own lifetime.
Wolfe inspired the works of many other authors, including Betty Smith with A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Robert Morgan with Gap Creek; Pat Conroy, author of Prince of Tides, said, "My writing career began the instant I finished Look Homeward, Angel." Jack Kerouac idolized Wolfe. Wolfe influenced Ray Bradbury, who included Wolfe as a character in his books.
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August 13, 2022
"Паутина Земли" - небольшая повесть, монолог старой матери к сыну. Язык лиричен, поначалу ее слова о голосах "два, два", а затем "двадцать, двадцать" навевают мистические настроения, но потом этот туман рассеивается, появляется описание о болезни и пьянстве ее мужа, простая история простых людей. Старая Элиза - символ плодородия, к чему она не прикоснется в огороде, все цветет, растет и плоды просто невероятны в своем изобилии. Ее муж не доверял жизни, он не мог удержаться чтобы не купить снеди, в то время, как кладовые ломились от запасов еды. Брал огромными партиями, целыми тушами, по сорока дюжин яиц. Он умирал от рака. Простая философия о жизни и смерти, о том, что надо жить сейчас, а на кладбище, удобряя незабудки, чеки будут не нужны. Голоса, которые лейтмотивом звучали всю повесть оказались провозвестниками рождения близнецов, без двадцати десять. Вот и вся история.
September 2, 2023
This is a modern work loosely telling the highlights of the life of a woman, but in the style of an older person giving a soliloquy. The narration style is somewhat difficult to follow but the story itself is quite eventful. It was my first time to read Thomas Wolfe. If you have ever read Virginia Woolf's stream-of-consciousness this raises the bar to another level. The stream is even harder to follow.
February 19, 2025
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February 16, 2025
“The Web Of Earth” is the final story in Thomas Wolfe’s compilation titled From Death To Morning and is a one-sided conversation between Mrs. Gant and her son, Gene. She is now in her seventies and is visiting him in New York; she is obviously within a day or so of returning home. Gene asked her about a subliminal message, “two … two … twenty … twenty” that Eliza Gant claims to have heard. She starts explaining the message to him but gets sidetracked until the final page of the story.
She begins telling Gene about the significance of the four words but reminisces about her entire life; her “walk down memory lane” is the crux of “The Web Of Earth.” I had to read this story twice to finally understand what Wolfe was saying, but after the reader cuts through Wolfe's philosophical “word salad,” his meaning becomes clear and “The Web Of Earth” illustrates how complex this guy's mind was … maybe at times, it was a little too complex.
As to the meaning of the story's title, the earth is a huge web … webs are composed of smaller individual pieces. The earth, as one huge entity … or web … houses these intricate components, be they human, animal, vegetable, mineral, or on a grander scale, the forces of nature. Each one affects the other; it makes no difference if that component is a crooked cop who kills an innocent man, a dictator who rules a country that invades its neighbor, or a hurricane that wreaks havoc on a region of a country; an act of one component affects another in this “web of earth.” In a nutshell, what Wolfe is saying is, “We’re all in this together.”
“The Web Of Earth” should rate four and a half stars due to the complexity of the story, but since Goodreads does not divide its “rating stars,” it rates five.*****
She begins telling Gene about the significance of the four words but reminisces about her entire life; her “walk down memory lane” is the crux of “The Web Of Earth.” I had to read this story twice to finally understand what Wolfe was saying, but after the reader cuts through Wolfe's philosophical “word salad,” his meaning becomes clear and “The Web Of Earth” illustrates how complex this guy's mind was … maybe at times, it was a little too complex.
As to the meaning of the story's title, the earth is a huge web … webs are composed of smaller individual pieces. The earth, as one huge entity … or web … houses these intricate components, be they human, animal, vegetable, mineral, or on a grander scale, the forces of nature. Each one affects the other; it makes no difference if that component is a crooked cop who kills an innocent man, a dictator who rules a country that invades its neighbor, or a hurricane that wreaks havoc on a region of a country; an act of one component affects another in this “web of earth.” In a nutshell, what Wolfe is saying is, “We’re all in this together.”
“The Web Of Earth” should rate four and a half stars due to the complexity of the story, but since Goodreads does not divide its “rating stars,” it rates five.*****
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