Otobiyografi olarak Thomas Clayton Wolfe`un romanları

Abstract

76 SUMMARY It is generally accepted that there is a close relationship between an author's life (autobiography) and his Works. And Thomas Wolfe is one of them. American novelist Thomas Wolfe wrote four novels which present a sweeping picture of American life. His novels are highly autobiographical. They describe the life of a youth from the rural South through his education to his career in New York City as a teacher and writer. Wolfe's major theme was almost always himself-his own inner and outer existence- his gropings, his pain, his self-discovery, and his endless search for an enduring faith. He was obsessed by memory, time and location, and his novels convey a brilliant sense of place. His writing is characterized by a lyrical and dramatic intencity, by the weaving and reweaving of a web of sensuous images, and by rhapsodic incantations. Thomas Wolfe was a keen observer and interpreter of Depression America. His four major books - Look Homeward, Angel(1929), Of Time and the River(1935), The Web and the Rock(1939), and You Can 't Go Home Again(1940) - chronicle in passionate, tormented prose the events involved in his life and the difficult decade from 1928 to 1938. He fictionalize his life from his birth to his twenty-five upon his first protoganist Eugine Gant in the first two novels. And the other posthumously published novels contains his changing views of life, the role of artists, and their struggle with social ilnesses. In this thesis we aimed at showing the relationship between Wolfe's novels and his own life. We concluded that Wolfe's novels are real life stories anda re close to autobiographies rather than to novels particularly for those who familiar with his Works