Injustice: Vintage Minis - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1784874086 ISBN 13: 9781784874087

Casa editrice: Vintage Classics, 2025

Riassunto

VINTAGE MINIS: GRANDI MENTI. GRANDI IDEE. PICCOLI LIBRI. Come andare avanti in un mondo in cui tutto è contro di te? Con speranza? Con paura? O con una lotta violenta? In questo libro avvincente e inquietante, Richard Wright intreccia i suoi ricordi d'infanzia con quelli di Bigger Thomas, un giovane uomo di colore intrappolato in una vita di povertà nei bassifondi di Chicago e inconsapevolmente coinvolto nella morte di una donna ricca, per dipingere un ritratto di oppressione insormontabile. Attraverso lo strano orgoglio che Bigger prova per il suo crimine, Wright ci porta a confrontarci con i sistemi di giustizia che ciecamente presumiamo siano sempre dalla nostra parte. Selezionato dai libri Black Boy e Native Son di Richard Wright.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Richard Wright was born near Natchez, Mississippi, in 1908, to a sharecropping family of ex-­slaves. His mother was a schoolteacher but, abandoned by her husband, she had to resort to menial jobs to feed her two sons before suffering a series of strokes. During a childhood scarred by hunger, Wright lived in Memphis, Tennessee, then in an orphanage, and with various relatives. He left home at fifteen, returned to Memphis for two years to work, and in 1934 went to Chicago where he was employed at the Post Office before beginning work at the Federal Writers' Project in 1935. He published Uncle Tom's Children in 1938 and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship the following year. His other books include Native Son (1940), his autobiography, Black Boy (1945), and The Outsider (1953). After the war, Richard Wright chose expatriation and went to live in Paris with his family, remaining there until his death in 1960.

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How to go on in a world where everything is set against you? With hope? In fear? Or, in violent struggle? In this gripping and disturbing book, Richard Wright weaves his own childhood recollections with those of Bigger Thomas - a young black man trapped in a life of poverty in the slums of Chicago, and unwittingly involved in a wealthy woman's death - to paint a portrait of insurmountable oppression. Through the strange pride Bigger takes in his crime, Wright brings us to confront the systems of justice we blindly assume are always on our side. Selected from the books Black Boy and Native Son by Richard Wright.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Vintage Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1784874086
• ISBN 13: 9781784874087
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 192
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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