My Other Loneliness: Letters of Thomas Wolfe and Aline BernsteinUniversity of North Carolina Press, 1983 - 390 Seiten Written over an eleven-year period, these letters between Thomas Wolfe and Aline Bernstein chronicle a love affair that was by turns stormy, tender, bitter, and contrite. When Wolfe met Mrs. Bernstein shortly before his twenty-fifth birthday in 1925, she was forty-four, married, and at the pinnacle of a successful career as a stage and costume designer. Bernstein gave the young writer not only the unstinting love of an experienced older woman but the financial assistance and belief in his ability that enabled him to create Look Homeward, Angel. "I am deliberately writing the book for two or three people," he writes to her, "first and chiefest, for you." In letters written while Wolfe traveled in Europe, Bernstein describes the exciting world of the theater in New York and her own work on countless productions. Wolfe's descriptions of life, culture, and language from Oxford to Budapest rank with the best of his collected writings. Reproach becomes a more common theme in the letters as the affair continues, however, by 1931 Wolfe acknowledges that his feelings for Bernstein have altered: "I need your help, and I need your friendship, and I need your love and belief--but the time of madness, darkness, passion is over, we can never relive that, we can never live through it again." That time continues to live, however, in these letters and in the books that both Wolfe and Mrs. Bernstein wrote about their relationship. For those who have read Wolfe's Of Time and the River, The Web and the Rock, or You Can't Go Home Again, or Aline Bernstein's Three Blue Suits or The Journey Down, this correspondence provides remarkable insights into the authors' sources. |
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... hard , I am not cruel - I have a kind of joy that old lady Richards is out of it , and another kind of joy that I'm out of it across the border . Do not hate me for talking like this - what I really feel must come out later . I did no ...
... hard , I am not cruel - I have a kind of joy that old lady Richards is out of it , and another kind of joy that I'm out of it across the border . Do not hate me for talking like this - what I really feel must come out later . I did no ...
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... hard work makes me envious and sorrowful . I am coming back and taking hold of something ; I want to work at it as hard as I can . I wish I could have seen your Hedda Gabler - but the Repertory Theatre will probably continue to do it ...
... hard work makes me envious and sorrowful . I am coming back and taking hold of something ; I want to work at it as hard as I can . I wish I could have seen your Hedda Gabler - but the Repertory Theatre will probably continue to do it ...
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... hard for me to travel this way every day . -I trust the indisposition in your tender place has been soothed by the zinc ointment . If you will keep it powdered and dry [ in ] this hot weather it will not trouble you . I love to hear ...
... hard for me to travel this way every day . -I trust the indisposition in your tender place has been soothed by the zinc ointment . If you will keep it powdered and dry [ in ] this hot weather it will not trouble you . I love to hear ...
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My Other Loneliness: Letters of Thomas Wolfe and Aline Bernstein Thomas Wolfe Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1983 |
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