"Hometown I can't return to"

...His lecture The Story of a Novel, published the following year, is moving in its candid confession of the secrets of his creative process. His posthumous works The Fabric and the Rocks (1939) and The Homeland of No Return (1940) feature George Weber as the protagonist, and the latter in particular shows a marked shift from his previous egocentric tendencies to a way of thinking that tries to relativize the self as a member of society, but this was not fully developed when the author died young from a relapse of tuberculosis during a lecture tour. His other works include the collections From Death to Morning (1935) and The Distant Mountains (1941), as well as the lecture Writing and Living (1964). ...

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…翌36年出版の講演《ある小説の物語》は，創作過程の秘密を率直に告白していて感動的である。遺作《織布と岩》(1939)と《帰れぬ故郷》(1940)はジョージ･ウェバーを主人公とし，とくに後者にはかつての自己中心癖から，自己を社会の一員として相対化しようとする発想への転換が顕著だが，作者が講演旅行中に結核を再発して夭折したために，十分に展開されぬままに終わった。ほかに短編集《死より朝へ》(1935)と《かなたの山々》(1941)，それに講演《創作と生活》(1964)がある。…

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