Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes Of A Native Son (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Baldwin, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140184473 ISBN 13: 9780140184471

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1991

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'These essays ... live and grow in the mind' James Campbell, Independent

Being a writer, says James Baldwin in this searing collection of essays, requires 'every ounce of stamina he can summon to attempt to look on himself and the world as they are'. His seminal 1961 follow-up to Notes on a Native Son shows him responding to his times and exploring his role as an artist with biting precision and emotional power: from polemical pieces on racial segregation and a journey to 'the Old Country' of the Southern states, to reflections on figures such as Ingmar Bergman and André Gide, and on the first great conference of African writers and artists in Paris.

'Brilliant...accomplished...strong...vivid...honest...masterly' The New York Times

'A bright and alive book, full of grief, love and anger' Chicago Tribune

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Born in Harlem in 1924, James Baldwin was a novelist, essayist, play­wright, poet, social critic and the author of more than twenty books. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews, and his essay col­lection The Fire Next Time was a bestseller that made him an influential figure in the civil rights movement. Baldwin spent many years in France, where he moved to escape the racism and homophobia of the United States. He died in 1987.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0140184473
• ISBN 13: 9780140184471
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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