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A novelist and essayist of considerable renown, James Baldwin bore witness to the unhappy consequences of American racial strife. Baldwin’s writing career began in the last years of legislated segregation; his fame as a social observer grew in tandem with the civil rights movement as he mirrored…
- Amen
- Untitled
- Staggerlee Wonders
- Le Sporting-Club de Monte Carlo
- Munich, Winter 1973
- The Giver
No, I don’t feel death coming. I feel death going: having thrown up his hands, for the moment. I feel like I know him better than I did. Those arms held me, for a while, and, when we meet again, there will be that secret knowledge between us. “Amen” is a powerful reflection on love’s transformative potential and its ability to transcend the boundar...
Lord, when you send the rain think about it, please, a little? Do not get carried away by the sound of falling water, the marvelous light on the falling water. I am beneath that water. It falls with great force and the light Blinds me to the light. Baldwin’s “Untitled” works often capture moments of introspection and candid expressions of the self....
I always wonder what they think the n*ggers are doing while they, the pink and alabaster pragmatists, are containing Russia and defining and re-defining and re-aligning China, nobly restraining themselves, meanwhile, from blowing up that earth which they have already blasphemed into dung: the gentle, wide-eyed, cheerful ladies, and their men, nosta...
The lady is a tramp a camp a lamp The lady is a sight a might a light the lady devastated an alley or two reverberated through the valley which leads to me, and you the lady is the apple of God’s eye: He’s cool enough about it but He tends to strut a little when she passes by the lady is a wonder daughter of the thunder smashing cages legistlating ...
In a strange house, a strange bed in a strange town, a very strange me is waiting for you. Now it is very early in the morning. The silence is loud. The baby is walking about with his foaming bottle, making strange sounds and deciding, after all, to be my friend. You arrive tonight. How dull time is! How empty—and yet, since I am sitting here, lyin...
If the hope of giving is to love the living, the giver risks madness in the act of giving. Some such lesson I seemed to see in the faces that surrounded me. Needy and blind, unhopeful, unlifted, what gift would give them the gift to be gifted? The giver is no less adrift than those who are clamouring for the gift. If they cannot claim it, if it is ...
21 de abr. de 2019 · (James Baldwin, 1963) O seu quinto romance, se a rua beale falasse , publicado originalmente em 1974 e relançado pela Companhia das Letras (2019) com tradução de Jorio Dauster, foi adaptado para o cinema e indicado ao Oscar.
18 de set. de 2020 · James Baldwin faleceu em 1987, em decorrência de um câncer no estômago. Sua obra é repleta de ensaios, romances, peças de teatro e poemas. Hoje é considerado um dos escritores mais importante de sua época e tem sido redescoberto pelas novas gerações, além de traduzido para vários idiomas.
26 de jun. de 2020 · O poema Untitled de James Baldwin foi retirado do portal Poetry Foundation e consta que a obra foi retirada da coletânea de poemas Jimmy’s Blues, publicada em 1983 e reimpresso em 2014....
1 de fev. de 2024 · Além disso, Baldwin participou da revista da escola — na qual publicava poemas, pequenas histórias e peças — e do clube literário. Em 1942, terminou a escola.
A novelist and essayist of considerable renown, James Baldwin bore witness to the unhappy consequences of American racial strife. Baldwin’s writing career began in the last years of legislated segregation; his fame as a social observer grew in tandem with the civil rights movement as...
