James Baldwin

Cuando James Baldwin presentó por primera vez el manuscrito de «El cuarto de Giovanni» a su editor, este no solo lo rechazó, sino que le aconsejó quemarlo. La novela narraba la historia de un trágico

One of the BBCs 100 Novels That Shaped Our WorldBaldwins ground-breaking second novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his timeDavid, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancee to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giovanni, a handsome Italian barman, the two men are drawn into an intense affair. After three months Davids fiancee returns and, denying his true nature, he rejects Giovanni for a safe future as a married man. His decision eventually brings tragedy. Filled with passion, regret and longing, this story of a fated love triangle has become a landmark of gay writing. James Baldwin caused outrage as a black author writing about white homosexuals, yet for him the issues of race, sexuality and personal freedom were eternally intertwined.Exquisite... a feat of fire-breathing, imaginative daringGuardianExcruciating beautySan Francisco Chronicle Audacious... remarkable... elegant and courageous Caryl Phillips

When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair. But his girlfriend's return to Paris destroys everything. Unable to admit to the truth, David pretends the liaison never happened - while Giovanni's life descends into tragedy. United by the theme of love, the writings in the Great Loves series span over two thousand years and vastly different worlds. Readers will be introduced to love's endlessly fascinating possibilities and extremities: romantic love, platonic love, erotic love, gay love, virginal love, adulterous love, parental love, filial love, nostalgic love, unrequited love, illicit love, not to mention lost love, twisted and obsessional love…

Sounds a clarion warning to the world.

Perhaps no other stories have ever been told so often or listened to with so much pleasure as the classic tales of ancient Greece. For many ages they have been a source of delight to young people and old, to the ignorant and the learned, to all who love to hear about and contemplate things mysterious, beautiful, and grand. They have become so incorporated into our language and thought, and so interwoven with our literature, that we could not do away with them now if we would. They are a portion of our heritage from the distant past, and they form perhaps as important a part of our intellectual life as they did of that of the people among whom they originated.

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Esta impecable reimpresión de Nothing Personal (Nada personal), la meticulosa monografía de Richard Avedon y James Baldwin, explora las contradicciones de la sociedad estadounidense con temas que van desde Marilyn Monroe y Allen Ginsberg a los pacientes de un hospital psiquiatrico y el partido nazi de Estados Unidos. Un cuaderno adicional de 72...El viaje estadounidense de Richard Avedon y James BaldwinRegresa al fin a las librerias la impresionante obra de Avedon y Baldwin de 1964Esta impecable reimpresion de Nothing Personal, de Richard Avedon y James Baldwin, explora las complejidades y contradicciones de la sociedad estadounidense y es especialmente oportuna en la era de Donald Trump. A traves de sus imagenes y texto, Avedon y Baldwin analizan la formacion de la identidad y los sistemas de relaciones que conectan y separan a las personas. Un cuaderno adicional de 72 paginas incluye un ensayo reciente del critico y ganador del Premio Pulitzer Hilton Als, imagenes ineditas de Avedon, correspondencia, diseños preliminares y material documental.Hacia 1963-1964, los antiguos amigos de instituto Richard Avedon, por aquel entonces uno de los fotografos mas famosos del mundo, y James Baldwin, un novelista y ensayista muy popular al tiempo que voz literaria de referencia en la lucha por los derechos civiles en Estados Unidos, colaboraron en Nothing Personal, un libro sobre la vida en Estados Unidos.El elenco de personajes de Avedon incluye desde iconos de la lucha por los derechos civiles hasta intelectuales, politicos, cantantes pop, pacientes de un hospital psiquiatrico y estadounidenses corrientes, todos ellos cuidadosamente ordenados, contrapuestos y recortados. El Partido Nazi Americano se enfrenta al poeta Allen Ginsberg y un agotado general Eisenhower da paso al vigor de Malcolm X. A los vulnerables pacientes de un hospital psiquiatrico, privados de calor humano, les sigue el abrazo de una madre y su hijo.El ensayo de Baldwin es una critica a una sociedad que considera injusta, alienante, divisiva y, en consecuencia, sumida en una crisis existencial. En un relato tan personal como pertinente, Baldwin escribe sobre el acoso que el mismo sufrio por parte de un policia racista en su Nueva York natal. Sin embargo, Baldwin, al igual que Avedon, culmina su trabajo mencionando la ineludible necesidad (y el poder) del amor.Diseñado por el legendario director artistico Marvin Israel, Nothing Personal es una gesta artistica del minimalismo. Un volumen de gran formato presentado en su propio estuche blanco en el que la sorprendente disposicion de imagenes y texto revoluciono el diseño de los libros de fotografia. La presente edicion ofrece una meticulosa reimpresion del original, descatalogado desde hace decadas, producido en estrecha colaboracion con la Fundacion Richard Avedon.Hilton Als, antiguo colega de Avedon en The New Yorker y experto en la obra de Baldwin, narra la creacion de Nothing Personal y documenta la amistad y la relacion creativa entre ambos artistas. Als tambien reflexiona de un modo conmovedor sobre como la obra influyo en su propia vida y en su amistad con Avedon.Cuando se publico en 1964, la vision de Estados Unidos de Avedon y Baldwin levanto una gran polemica y ambos fueron objeto de duras criticas por su condicion de liberales elitistas ymoralistas de Hollywoodque no representaban los sentimientos de los estadou...

Una violenta denuncia del razzismo della societa americana, carica di introspezione e ricordi autobiografici, che danno a questo saggio il tono di una cantata per il popolo nero e un valore letterario ancora intatto. Come ha scritto il critico F.W. Dupee: "Non puo dirsi che il punto di vista di Baldwin sia quello generico di un negro qualunque, ma piuttosto di un negro altamente qualificato a parlare e a esprimersi, per di piu, con eleganza di forma e in una prosa contraddistinta da chiarezza e concisione. Nei suoi crudeli paradossi sulla vita dei negri, sui loro rapporti con gli ebrei e sui fallimenti dei cristiani, Baldwin non ha eguali. Perche ci riporta ad una realta 'fastidiosa', una realta che noi bianchi ogni giorno cerchiamo di dimenticare."

The inspiration for the new film from Oscar award-winning director Barry Jenkins 'Achingly beautiful' Guardian Harlem in the 1970s: the black soul of New York City. Tish is nineteen and the man she loves - her lifelong friend and the father of her unborn child - has been jailed for a crime he did not commit. As their families come together to fight for his freedom, will their love be enough? 'Soulful . . . Racial injustice may flatten "the black experience" into one single, fearful, constantly undermined way of life - but black life, black love, is so much larger than that . . . It's one of the signature lessons of Baldwin's work that blackness contains multitudes' Vanity Fair 'If Beale Street Could Talk affirms not only love between a man and a woman, but love of a type that is dealt with only rarely in contemporary fiction - that between members of a family' Joyce Carol Oates

Rufus Scott n’en pouvait plus de vivre dans le monde cruel et implacable des Blancs, humilié, abandonné de tous, écrasé par le poids d’une cité inhumaine. Par une nuit froide de novembre, il est allé