Talking at the Gates: Life of James Baldwin - Rilegato

Campbell, James

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0571153917 ISBN 13: 9780571153916

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 1991

Riassunto

"The unexamined life is not worth living" - this was James Baldwin's motto. Born in 1924 in Harlem, his first public success was as a boy preacher. His early essays and stories were published in New York's leading intellectual journals, but in 1948 Baldwin fled from the horrors of American racism to Paris. Living there in poverty, among the expatriate community, he wrote "Go Tell It on the Mountain" and "Giovanni's Room". "Talking at the Gates" is a biography of one of America's most influential black writers. It offers fresh insights into Baldwin's friendships and rivalries, with Norman Mailer, Richard Wright, Marlon Brando and others, his love for Martin Luther King, his flirtation with the Black Panthers, and his homosexuality.

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Book by Campbell James

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• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0571153917
• ISBN 13: 9780571153916
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 256