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Von Zeit und Strom: Eine Legende vom Hunger des Menschen in der Jugend - Hardcover

Wolfe, Thomas

 
9783498073152: Von Zeit und Strom: Eine Legende vom Hunger des Menschen in der Jugend

Synopsis

In 1935, Thomas Wolfes second novel "Von Zeit und Strom" was published. After the famous childhood and youth story Eugene Gants in "Look homewards, angel", Wolfe now let his hiking years follow his wandering years: Gant leaves his hometown Altamont, studies in Boston, returns to his father's funeral, of which he hardly remembers anything except his powerful stonemason hands, moves to New York for his first job. he greedily picks up, travels to England and France - a geared without a centre. Only on the return journey, on the ship and "after all the tormented, blind wandering of youth" he sees a woman who could become the woman of his heart...
Wolfe succeeds in shaping a special vision of life in «Of Time and Electricity»; it is «unspeakable in endless movement and unchangeable change, like the great stream and like time itself». This novel is still one of the most remarkable testimonies of American narrative art of the 20th century today. The congenial translation of the expressionist poet Hans Schiebelhuth, which gave him great attention in Germany at his appearance and made Wolfe more famous in this country when he was in his homeland, was carefully reviewed and updated for the present edition.

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