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È sera nel Greenwich Village e Rufus Scott, batterista jazz nero, si aggira da giorni senza meta e senza scopo per le strade di New York, una città feroce divisa in due da un fiume: da una parte i neri di Harlem, dall'altra i bianchi, ricchi o poveri che siano. Abbandonato da tutti e separato da Leona, la donna bianca che ama, si arrende all'ostilità che sente intorno a sé, lanciandosi da un ponte nelle acque gelate di novembre, incapace di sostenere il peso del giudizio e delle aspettative degli altri. Nessuno dei personaggi intorno a Rufus, legati a lui da amicizia o da amore, riuscirà a salvarlo dal suo destino, non ci riesce Vivaldo, l'amico irlandese che sogna di diventare scrittore, non ci riescono Cass e Richard con la loro apparente quiete famigliare, non ci riesce Eric che lo ha molto amato, non ci riesce Ida, la sorella che più di chiunque altro può capire la fatica di essere neri alla metà degli anni Cinquanta. In una New York lacerata dalla segregazione razziale un superlativo James Baldwin mette in scena la tragedia degli affetti, di un amore che non salva, di una fiducia che si scopre essere sempre mal riposta, di una coscienza che inganna prima di tutto se stessa.
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- Pagine: 458
- Data di uscita: 30-05-2019
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‘ Love was a country he knew nothing about. ’ Where would we be without love? It uplifts, it hurts, it sends us ricocheting with one another across existence, and we all grapple with consuming or being consumed by one another in its name as we struggle to apply our love with that of another. ‘ Love take Leggi tutto
well sheesh. james baldwin's books are one of a kind. they range, for me, in pleasurable reading — some i must drag myself through, some seem to open themselves up to the reader, but i am always left struck and wondering. this book, uncharacteristically lengthy for baldwin's works, was not one that i Leggi tutto
I read James Baldwin's Another Country because I thought it would give me the opportunity to revisit the New York City I had visited in the summer of 1966. I thought it would give me a chance to once again experience the New York City I revisited in both Patti Smith's Just Kids and Dave Van Ronk's T Leggi tutto
It took 15 years for Baldwin to complete this novel. He travelled all across from Paris to Turkey in poor health, depressed, and feeling that he had lost sight of his aims as a writer. On the brink of suicide, this novel had almost killed him. And while reading this you can sense Baldwin's sense of
Wow. Just... wow . Kind of weird—my reaction is not declare Another Country a new favorite, I just didn't love it in that way. And yet, and yet, it penetrated deeply, perhaps more deeply than some books I do consider my favorite... Perhaps this has to do with how perplexing Baldwin is as an author—it Leggi tutto
There is something so miraculous in the way James Baldwin writes about being defeated by society and yet can still find so much affection for a life that could have been, if the realities of being black or gay in America were different. I think that the hope the characters have comes from their drea Leggi tutto
The author is quoted as saying this novel scared people because most don't understand it. I’m one of them, but that's not all bad. I didn’t completely understand all the complex and interconnecting themes - love, black rage, white guilt, infidelity, envy, homosexuality, comparisons of sexual and rac Leggi tutto
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