Thomas Wolfe documentary
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 - September 15, 1938) was an American novelist of the early 20th century.
Wolfe wrote four lengthy novels as well as many short stories, dramatic works, and novellas. He is known for mixing highly original, poetic, rhapsodic, and impressionistic prose with autobiographical writing. His books, written and published from the 1920s to the 1940s, vividly reflect on American culture and the mores of that period, filtered through Wolfe's sensitive, sophisticated, and hyper-analytical perspective.
After Wolfe's death, contemporary author William Faulkner said that Wolfe may have been the greatest talent of their generation for aiming higher than any other writer. Wolfe's influence extends to the writings of Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac, and of authors Ray Bradbury and Philip Roth, among others. He remains an important writer in modern American literature, as one of the first masters of autobiographical fiction, and is considered North Carolina's most famous writer.
Thomas Wolfe documentary
1983
Wolfe ALWAYS appealed to me with his gorgeous prose. With favorite Writers, it's not so much the Story they tell but moreover, the WAY they tell the Story. IMO, I rarely find a Film based on Book better than the Book itself. I think, with some Writers & Stories, its a shame that people depend on the Film to know a Story and bypass the Book. I know many people differ from my opinion but doubt I'll ever feel differently :) LOVE Documentaries - so enjoy my early Sunday Morning Documentary Viewing - ESPECIALLY this Series!! Thanks to whomever posts them! :)
These are great.
Keep'em coming.
This was excellent! Thank you!
These Documentaries on all of the Authors have inspired me to re-read SO many Books again! Just when I re-organized and donated an entire Shelf of Books, its filling up again!! lol
Thank you so much for the effort. Love Maestro Wolfe since the first time I recieved this book
My favorite writer! Thanks for this video!
Didn't know much about Wolfe's life! Thanks!
Thank you for this excellent video.
Look homeward Angel was heavily edited by Maxwell Perkins and in fact the reviewers of the time felt that Perkins was almost a co-writer, and this detraction from what wolf felt should have been credit given solely to him, was the main reason for their falling out- but hundreds and hundreds of pages were edited out of the book which were recently added, but to dubious effect.
My personal feeling about the book having ready twice, is that there are sections in it which are sublimely beautiful and there are sections in it which still seem to me like unnecessary digressions a 20 year old novice writer.
But the beautiful parts more than make up for it and you were also struck by his unflinching honesty throughout the book. He spares no one including himself, which also caused him a great deal of distress during his lifetime.
Wolf died very young and his energy was such that I believe it could have served him well into later adulthood. Another one of those tragedies.
I love Southern writers past and present.
Please no music. It's hard to hear the speaker, narrator.
The music adds nothing, but interferes with hearing the speaker.
Oh my god he’s my great great uncle in my great grandma‘s uncle
That's really cool. I always love it when the descendants drop by 👍
How exciting 💙
For real?
hes an amazing person. i cried after watching his movie.
@@Twnty-FifthBam - What movie?
only 1 word to describe thomas wolfe inside and out. Beautiful.
When was this recorded? I had met Professor Walser some 35 years ago at an annual Thomas Wolfe Society meeting in Chapel Hill...
1983. That's pretty cool
The musical background drowns out the speaker.
Thankfully
The background music is completely unneccessary. Really. Just cut it out please.
I can't tell what he is saying when he says the name of the book. Is he saying Look of the angel?
Look Homeward, Angel
danke thank you
Don Williams brought me here
Listening to this narrator is like watching paint dry.
Thomas Wolfe is Eugene Gant in Look Homeward Angel and Of Time and The River and then he was an only child in The Web And The Rock and You Can't Go Home Again.
What a great looking young boy and man
This is unbearable. The renaissance music is way too loud and completely inappropriate for the subject matter. I wish there were some good content about Thomas Wolfe on UA-cam
Don Williams brought me here.
I wish the background music was louder. I can still hear people talking.
Still not edited enough. Particularly for the modern reader.
Please reissue this with all music deleted. Distraxting, annoying, irrelevant music.
😍
This Write Like is not as well done as the others. Th narrator is so so
Mo
Angels what lol his accent is too much and old days I can't understand the name of the novel
Seriously? You're joking yes? I assume you are but if not, the novel is called Look Homeward Angel.
! ?? ! ?.....I'm from UK and we love a Southern accent . !
If you don’t know of Look Homeward Angel, then you must have just randomly stumbled across this documentary. It was Wolfe’s big breakthrough novel. It’s what made him famous, and it’s autobiographical. As for the narrator, Richard Walser was North Carolina’s most well known literary historian. He’s the perfect host for such a program.