Thursday, March 21, 2013

The phenomenon of Dixieland Thomas Wolfe

In the autobiographical novel American writers, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, the house called Dixieland was the main attraction of which have not been exhaustively discussed. The house is described with very interesting was inspired from a house that is really there, a house with 29 rooms for rent in Asheville, the city of the author's childhood.

Built in 1883, the house was used as a boarding house was purchased by Wolfe's mother, Julia, and known as Old Kentucky home. That name may refer to its owner, a pastor in Kentucky. Wolfe's last visit to the house in 1937, just a year before she closed her eyes forever because the disease tubercular meningitis at the age of 38 years. While Julia lived in the house until he died in 1945.

Maybe this is the closest association between past Wolfe makes this house an attraction that never faded.
In 1948, the family sold the house to a group and then make it work as the Thomas Wolfe Memorial, which in 1973 became the cultural heritage in the state of North Carolina.

Look Homeward, Angel until now constantly reprinted since its first publication in 1929. Wolfe, one of the giants of American literature, immortalized in postage stamps in 2000.

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