Nell’era dell’iper-comunicazione, delle informazioni, delle pubbliche relazioni e dei social network, che alimentati dalla vanità sociale confondono pubblico e privato trasformando ogni persona in un potenziale personaggio pubblico, oggi più che mai la solitudine assume la portata del gesto politico, anarchico e ribelle, di un camussiano uomo in rivolta. Considerato da William Faulkner il più importante scrittore del suo tempo, in questo monologo labirintico e al tempo stesso torrenziale e sepolcrale, Thomas Wolfe sviscera i confini della solitudine e dell’isolamento indicandoli come la via principale di cura per la vanità e quindi, in buona parte, per il nostro tempo.
Author
People 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. (from Wikipedia)
