The Web and the Rock. Death — The Proud Sister

5 hrs. 12 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Thomas Wolfe

Narrator Alexander Bordukov

Description

The fantastic and utterly unique Thomas Wolfe. His poetic prose enthralls from the very first lines and doesn’t let go until the end. Most often, when Wolfe’s name is mentioned, people immediately recall his novels “Look Homeward, Angel” and “Of Time and the River.” And indeed, it was thanks to his monumental works that Thomas Wolfe gained worldwide recognition and was named one of the best prose writers of the 20th century. And few people know that in 1935 a small collection of his short fiction was published.

The novellas “The Web of Earth” (1932), built as a mother’s monologue addressed to her son, and “Death—Proud Sister” (1935)—about “Proud Death, harsh Solitude, and the Great Dream”—in essence tell the same thing: the longing and the impossibility of returning home.