James Baldwin
Paperback | Pages: 159 pages Rating: 4.24 | 50603 Users | 4162 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Giovanni's Room |
| ISBN: | 0141186356 (ISBN13: 9780141186351) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Paris(France) |
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An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here.Baldwin's haunting and controversial second novel is his most sustained treatment of sexuality, and a classic of gay literature. In a 1950s Paris swarming with expatriates and characterized by dangerous liaisons and hidden violence, an American finds himself unable to repress his impulses, despite his determination to live the conventional life he envisions for himself. After meeting and proposing to a young woman, he falls into a lengthy affair with an Italian bartender and is confounded and tortured by his sexual identity as he oscillates between the two.
Examining the mystery of love and passion in an intensely imagined narrative, Baldwin creates a moving and complex story of death and desire that is revelatory in its insight.
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| Title | : | Giovanni’s Room |
| Author | : | James Baldwin |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 159 pages |
| Published | : | June 2000 by Penguin (first published 1956) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. LGBT. GLBT. Queer. Novels. Gay. Cultural. African American |
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He grasped me by the collar, wrestling and caressing at once, fluid and iron at once: saliva spraying from his lips and his eyes full of tears, but with the bones of his face showing and the muscles leaping in his arms and neck. You want to leave Giovanni because he makes you stink. You want to despise Giovanni because he is not afraid of the stink of love. You want to kill him in the name of all your lying moralities. And you--you are immoral. You are, by far, the most immoral man I have met inBaldwin picked up where Gore Vidal left off in The City & the Pillar. This novel renders Vidals effort a tame, breezy vacation at the hotel de homo, sizzling as it does with dirty-realist conflict, torturous identity politics, and one of the whiniest lovers since Courtney Love hooked up with the entire population of Iran. One frustrating conflictBaldwin wanted to escape the Negro writer ghetto, so made his characters (it would seem) white in this novel. Imagine the stink if hed written about
"I scarcely know how to describe that room. It became, in a way, every room I had ever been in and every room I find myself in hereafter will remind me of Giovannis room."At the end of July, I spent a short but glorious time in 1950s Paris in Giovannis room. And I want to tell you about my incredible experience, but I cant quite figure out how to go about it. Having been left in the thrall of James Baldwins achingly exquisite prose, I have been left speechless. I cant do the book justice. Yet, I
Love, love, love, love, love this. Baldwin, be mine! This is such a gorgeously written little novel. I can't conceive of how Baldwin fit so much sheer emotion into around 150 pages. Baldwin is practically unknown here in Ireland and it's such an injustice. I want everyone to read this and be in awe of the sheer brilliance of it. (Fans of Isherwood would love this btw)
poetic prose at its most yearning and beautiful. this could have been perfection, but it is a bit hard to ignore the underlying misogyny.
I wasn't sure any Baldwin book would surpass his Go Tell is to the Mountain, which I loved, but this one was even better and an immediate favourite. This story was wonderfully-written and explored a gay storyline which I have never encountered in African-American writing from Baldwin's era.Supposedly quite a few prolific African-American writers were not such big fans of Baldwin due to this reason.This story is set in Paris and is about an American man, David, who is in love with both a man,
This is a tragedy of failed love in post-war Paris, featuring a protagonist as hard to judge as Camus' "The Stranger." The narrator, David, is a young man on an extended stay from the U.S. on parental funds, ostensibly to develop his writing skills, but in reality to play. A transient gay fling with an impoverished, artistic Bohemian leads to an idyllic cohabitation while his fiancé travels in the East. You know it didnt last from the beginning of the book, but as the affair proceeds, you feel
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