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• W320684610 abstract "Thomas Wolfe grew up in the hill-encircled city of Asheville. He loved the blue haze on its towering hills, and the wild sound of its demonic winds echoed in his mind throughout the bitter briefness of his days. From Asheville he went as a gawky youth to Chapel Hill when its University was beginning to shed its quiet provincialism and become the vigorous spokesman and explorer of the New South. Wolfe embraced that exploration, he was, from the beginning of his life, a self-conscious and proud Southerner. From Chapel Hill, he went to Harvard, from Harvard to New York City, and from New York City to England and Europe. Then he explored the United States so thoroughly that at the end of his life he could declare that he had traveled through or had seen every state in the Union except Texas. (1) After 1930 a question hauntingly present in his mind was what it means to be an Wolfe was extremely conscious of his nationality. In his notebooks there are numerous jottings, such as am Thomas Wolfe. I am an American. (2) He was obsessed by the vastness and the complexity, the beauty and the terror, the loneliness and the crowded manswarm that went together in all their contradictory ways to make his native land. And from the first of his seven trips to Europe, he found himself, apparently with some surprise, in the role of a self-conscious American defending his native land and its people. What forms did this obsession take? What does it tell us about the meaning of his work? I shall try to suggest some answers. Thomas Wolfe's life is like a stone dropped in a still pool. Concentric circles spread out from it until they finally touch the outermost banks of the pool. Thus, his birth on October 3, 1900, in a house on Woodfin Street in Asheville can be thought of as a stone dropped in such a still pool; it sent out ripples in steadily widening circles until the effect he produced was vast, and in turn the effect produced upon him by the returning ripples from the limits of the pool was also great. But, though he was a hill man, a provincial, a Southerner, and when he went to New York City he approached that enfabled rock like every provincial entering the cultural capital of his land during the last two hundred years, yet the feeding back upon him by the widening circle of his experience did not push him homeward. Many of us reach out, touch perimeters of a world larger than our own, and then retreat, come home again, and the larger world we touched lives on us only as a memory, a nostalgic recollection, but as no active and effective part of our lives. But Thomas Wolfe, as he emphatically declared in the closing years of his life, could not go home again. This outward stretch from this city to this state to this region to this nation, and finally to the wide world was an onward, progressive, continuing movement, and one which he was never to alter. For there was about him an openness, a receptiveness, a willingness to grasp and to understand that is unusual, and that created in this self-conscious provincial the active possibility of becoming truly a citizen of the world, and led him to become a supreme celebrator of America. The book that grew out of Thomas Wolfe's experiences in Asheville and North Carolina was Look Homeward, Angel, the nostalgic cry of a man defining and describing childhood and the process of growing into maturity and an awareness of the larger world. It was, as he acknowledged himself, a lyric book. He said, Like other men, I began to write with an intense and passionate concern with the designs and purposes of my own youth. (3) When Eugene Gant, at the end of Look Homeward, Angel, stands for the last time by the angels of his father's porch, it seemed as if the square already were far and lost ... he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he has left, yet does not say `The town is near,' but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges. (4) Wolfe, as well as his protagonist, was leaving his native city, and to an appreciable extent his native southland. …" @default.
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