It depicts a white American struggling to accept his homoerotic desires. David, the protagonist, like Baldwin himself, feels alienated from his native country and moves to Paris in search of a freer life. In the passage Baldwin reads on this recording, David recalls a childhood sexual encounter with another boy-an encounter that left him deeply upset and ambivalent about his manhood.
"[Baldwin] is thought-provoking, tantalizing, irritating, abusing, and amusing. And he uses words as the sea uses waves, to flow and beat, advance and retreat, rise, and take a bow in disappearing...the thought becomes poetry and the poetry illuminates thought." — Langston Hughes
"[Baldwin] has become one of the few writers of our time." — Norman Mailer, New York Times bestselling author
"Mr. Baldwin has taken a very special theme and treated it with great artistry and restraint." — Saturday Review
"Exciting...a book that belongs in the top rank of fiction." — Atlantic
"A young American involved with both a woman and a man...Baldwin writes of these matters with unusual candor and yet with such dignity and intensity." — New York Times
"If Van Gogh was our nineteenth-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our twentieth-century one." — Michael Ondaatje, New York Times Bestselling author
- Autor: James Baldwin
- Kategoria: literatura piękna
- Język: angielski
- ISBN: 9781483019376
- Data wydania: 2015-04-15
- Ocena: 7,0
- Wydawnictwo: Calliope
