Novelist, essayist, and public intellectual James Baldwin was one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the postwar era, and one of the greatest African-American writers of this century. "Early Novels and Stories" presents the novels and short stories that established Baldwin's reputation as a writer who fused unblinking realism with rare verbal eloquence. This volume includes his first novel, "Go Tell It on the Mountain" (1953), "Giovanni's Room" (1956), and other early works.
King Alfred and the CakesKing Alfred and the BeggarKing Canute on the SeashoreThe Sons of William the ConquerorThe White ShipKing John and the AbbotA Story of Robin HoodBruce and the SpiderThe Black DouglasThree Men of GothamOther Wise Men of GothamThe Miller of the DeeSir Philip SidneyThe Ungrateful SoldierSir Humphrey GilbertSir Walter RaleighPocahontasGeorge Washington and his HatchetGrace DarlingThe Story of William TellArnold WinkelriedThe Bell of AtriHow Napoleon crossed the AlpsThe Story of CincinnatusThe Story of RegulusCornelias JewelsAndroclus and the LionHoratius at the BridgeJulius CsarThe Sword of DamoclesDamon and PythiasA Laconic AnswerThe Ungrateful GuestAlexander and BucephalusDiogenes the Wise ManThe Brave Three HundredSocrates and his HouseThe King and his HawkDoctor GoldsmithThe KingdomsThe Barmecide FeastThe Endless TaleThe Blind Men and the ElephantMaximilian and the Goose BoyThe Inchcape RockWhittington and his CatCasabiancaAntonio CanovaPicciolaMignon
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El libro que James Baldwin tenía planeado escribir cuando murió en 1987, versaba sobre tres defensores de la igualdad racial en Estados Unidos, asesinados entre 1963 y 1968: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X y Martin Luther King. Solo se conservaron apuntes sueltos, que dos decadas despues fueron entregados por su hermana Gloria al cineasta Raoul Peck. Este acabo combinando el material de Baldwin —leido por la voz en off de Samuel L. Jackson— con grabaciones de conferencias y entrevistas radiofonicas y televisivas, asi como con fotogramas y fotografias de diversa procedencia. El resultado fue un documental profundo y poetico que subraya la relevancia de Baldwin en la epoca del Black Lives Matter. ¿Por que hacer un libro del documental? Porque la amplia y compleja informacion que destila no es asimilable en una sola visualizacion; porque resultan muy esclarecedores los testimonios del propio Peck acerca de los cuatro años que duro el proceso de elaboracion del film, asi como los de Gloria Baldwin Karefa-Smart, quien explica por que confio en Peck, y los de la montadora de tan singular pieza cinematografica; y tambien, por el puro placer de leer textos ineditos de Baldwin contextualizados por un cineasta excepcional.
From one of the most important writers of the twentieth century comes a stunning love story about a young Black woman whose life is torn apart when her lover is wrongly accused of a crime&mdash"a moving, painful story, so vividly human and so obviously based on reality that it strikes us as timeless" (The New York Times Book Review)."One of the best books Baldwin has ever written&mdashperhaps the best of all." &mdashThe Philadelphia InquirerTold through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin&rsquos story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions&mdashaffection, despair, and hope. In a love story that evokes the blues, where passion and sadness are inevitably intertwined, Baldwin has created two characters so alive and profoundly realized that they are unforgettably ingrained in the American psyche.
Als anys cinquanta, en David, un jove americà, passa els dies a París mentre espera la seva parella, la Hella, que ha de tornar d?un viatge per Espanya amb la resposta a la seva proposició de matrimo
Amb convicció, claredat i passió, James Baldwin fa una adverténcia imperiosa sobre els efectes del racisme que continua sent urgent seixanta anys després de la seva publicació original. En el primer dels dos assaigs que componen l obra, OEl meu calabos trontolla: Carta al meu nebot en el primer centenari de l Emancipacio," Baldwin ofereix una orientacio calida i determinada sobre que vol dir ser negre als Estats Units i explica la logica perversa del racisme america. A OAl peu de la creu: Carta escrita des d una regio del meu pensament," Baldwin narra el seu viatge espiritual per l esglesia despres d una crisi religiosa als catorze anys, i despres a fora una altra vegada, aixi com la seva trobada amb Elijah Muhammad, el lider de la Nacio de l Islam. De principi a fi, Baldwin ens urgeix a confrontar-nos amb les institucions opressives de la raça, la religio i la condicio de nacio mateixa, i insisteix que la resiliencia compartida entre negres i blancs es l unic cami per tirar endavant. De la mateixa manera que es un balanç del passat racista d America, La proxima vegada, el foc tambe es una crida alta i clara a preocupar-se, tenir valentia i amor, i una llum per al cami.
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It consists of two "letters," written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism. Described by The New York Times Book Review as "sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle...all presented in searing, brilliant prose," The Fire Next Time stands as a classic of our literature.
