2023-06-13 11:30:28
Author of several masterpieces, such as The angel who watches us (1929) y time and river (1935), on whose writing he stops the movie geniuseswith Jude Law playing the role of the writer and Colin Firth in the role of the brilliant editor Maxwell Perkins, is also the author of a posthumous novel, from 1940, you can’t come home, which is now published for the first time in Spanish by the Piel de Zapa label. In it he talks about the pain felt by those who end up far from where they grew up.
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“If you leave any of the holes in rural America with the intention of returning home, you have to know that failure awaits you there. At the very least, you run the risk of discovering that the return flight is capable of ruining the fond memories you have made.” They accompanied you on takeoff. Or put another way, in the words of the Spanish poet Felix Grande: “You should never return to those places where you were happy.”
Driven by dreams of literary success, George Webber he leaves his hometown to make a name for himself as a writer in New York.
His first novel gives him fame, but also the rancor of other writers, outraged by the description he makes of them and the home. Uneasy about his reaction and unsure of himself and his future, he begins a search for a greater understanding of his artistic identity that leads him deeper into New York’s social whirlwind; to London with a group of expatriates, and to Berlin, under the shadow of Adolf Hitler.
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Discover a world full of political uncertainty and on the verge of transformation, although she feels within herself the ability to face it with optimism, in addition to finding a renewed love for her roots.
He is a hopeful man but at the same time aware that one can never fully return home to his family, to his childhood, far from the struggles and conflicts of the world: return to the old traditions and systems that once seemed eternal but do not stop changing.
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In fact, what appears before his eyes is not the nostalgic community he abandoned, but a different one in the midst of a real estate boom: green hills and forests gave way to businesses and offices.
Among other posthumous works by Thomas Wolfewho died very young, another one is known that we usually mention every time we have the thankless task of communicating someone’s death in this program: The proud sister death.
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