The literary career of Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938) lasted a little more than a decade, but the writer became one of the largest figures in the history of American literature. His name is rightly associated with a galaxy of masters who shaped American prose in the 1920s–1930s.
“There Is No Homecoming” is Thomas Wolfe’s last, posthumously published novel. It captures the most important turning point in the spiritual history of the hero—and in the author behind him—from “global romanticism” and the artist’s egocentrism focused on his own work, to a sense of direct participation in the harsh reality of socio-political struggle in the modern world. The hero is a young writer who can’t find his place in America of that time—with its striking contrasts of luxury and poverty—and, with anxiety and horror, sees how fascism gathers strength in Germany.