After the premature death of Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner said of him that he was the best writer of his generation, placing Faulkner himself, modestly, in second place on the list. Lists apart, Wolfe is, along with Faulkner and Carson McCullers, a genuine representative of what could be called American southern lyricism. In the whole of his work, based on his own life experience, undoubtedly Time and the river is the most important piece, the most important and the one that has had the greatest influence on the contemporary novel. Eugene Gant, its protagonist (Wolfe's own transcript), is the fictional hero par excellence. His powerful vitality, his overwhelming desire to become a writer, his romantic need to embrace all kinds of experiences without subjecting himself to limitations or breakers, explosively, make him one of the most endearing and touching fictional creatures of the literature of our time. Whirlwind of words and events, Of time and the river is one of the most beautiful analysis of loneliness and helplessness, while a relentless exercise of reflection on artistic creation and on the passage of time and the arrival of death .
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