Cane (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Toomer, Jean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143133675 ISBN 13: 9780143133674

Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 2019

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Críticas

"[Toomer] is American literature's greatest, most enduring enigma. . . . But here, in this lush, bleak book, in his evocation of the world as it is instead of how it ought to be, something hardier, more useful is conveyed -- of the possibilities for epiphany, the reliable consolations of love and revenge. And in his style -- this pastiche of poem, autobiography and fable -- there is an integration of the self that the life never afforded." --Parul Sehgal, The New York Times "Over the past 95 years this Harlem Renaissance 'experiment' -- a mosaic of poems, vignettes and short stories, many of these last being shocking studies of loneliness and the longing for love -- has risen from relative obscurity to become what it always was, a groundbreaking work of 20th-century American literature." --Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

Reseña del editor

Jean Toomer's Cane is one of the most significant works to come out of the Harlem Renaissance and is considered to be a masterpiece in American modernist literature due to its distinct structure and style. First published in 1923 and told through a series of vignettes, Cane uses poetry, prose and play-like dialogue to create a window into the varied lives of African Americans living in the rural South and urban North during a time when Jim Crow laws pervaded and racism reigned.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0143133675
• ISBN 13: 9780143133674
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224