by Thomas Wolfe · Viena · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483308127
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«El nen perdut» is the short novel by Thomas Wolfe published by Viena in paperback (112 pages, in Catalan).
In 1904 the Wolfe family moves from Asheville to Saint Louis, site of the World's Fair, where the mother runs a boarding house. There, a tragedy marks Thomas's childhood: the disappearance of his brother Grover. Four voices reconstruct the episode in one of the most evocative narratives in twentieth-century American literature.
Published in 2014, volume 45 of the El cercle de Viena collection, with translation and epilogue by Marcel Riera. The work was originally published as «The Lost Boy» in 1937.
For readers of classic narrative in Catalan and of short stories from twentieth-century American literature.
Thomas Clayton Wolfe was an American novelist and short story writer. He is known largely for his first novel, Look Homeward, Angel (1929), and for the short fiction that appeared during the last years of his life. He was one of the pioneers of autobiographical fiction, and along with William Faulkner, he is considered one of the most important authors of the Southern Renaissance within the American literary canon. He has been dubbed "North Carolina's most famous writer."
