October 1931; October 1923; October 1926; April 1928. Four discontinuous moments of existence, four intermediate stations in the seasons of transition. In the first person, in short prose, in snail-like sentences, folded into themselves, the protagonist narrates the hardships of his life, the constant knocking on the door, the wanderings of those who cannot find their way in. It is also a book of travel between countries, landscapes, and human societies: truck drivers who cross the United States every night with their goods, tasteless English food, English students, a dead father, a lost brother, a rich man who was exhausted by his comfortable life. The great writer William Faulkner, who was one of Woolf's avid readers, considered "No Door" the natural continuation of "The Lost Boy," even though chronologically the order of publication was reversed. As always with Thomas Wolfe, the pulsating emotional intensity is made of a unique style and syntax: in broad, anaphoric prose, words and sentences that repeat like waves in a rhythm that creates an unforgettable story. During his short life, the American writer Thomas Wolfe composed works that are exquisite fabrics of inspiration, style, urgency, and emotion. His work is a literary volcano and a kind of expressive outcry. The first version of the novella "No Door" appeared in 1933 in "Scribner's Magazine." "There are three great writers in the United States: the first is Wolfe, the second is me, and the third is Hemingway." William Faulkner "In 1949, when I was sixteen, I encountered Thomas Wolfe, who died at the age of thirty-eight in 1938, and who turned many teenagers besides me into devoted literature lovers forever." Philip Roth