Go Tell it on the Mountain -

James Baldwin

Everyman's Library

2016

280 páginas

9h 20m

ISBN-13: 9781101907610

This haunting coming-of-age story, based in part on James Baldwin’s childhood in Harlem, is an American classic.

Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was Baldwin’s first major work. With a potent combination of lyrical compassion and resonant rage, he portrays a fourteen-year-old boy questioning the terms of his identity. John Grimes is the stepson of a fire-breathing and abusive Pentecostal preacher in Harlem during the Depression. The action of this short novel spans a single day in John’s life, and yet manages to encompass on an epic scale his family’s troubled past and his own inchoate longings for the future, set against a shining vision of a city where he both does and does not belong. Baldwin’s story illuminates the racism his characters face as well as the double-edged role religion plays in their lives, both oppressive and inspirational. In prose that mingles gritty vernacular cadences with exalted biblical rhythms, Baldwin’s rendering of his young protagonist’s struggle to invent himself pioneered new possibilities in American language and literature.

Resenhas (5)

4 (Muito bom)

Achei uma leitura bem interessante, me prendeu bastante a atenção no começo. Gostei muito da escrita, é uma escrita forte e bonita de ler.
Eu achei, no começo, que a obra fosse focar no John, então me surpreendi quando começou a contar a história e os pecados dos membros da família dele, porém acho que isso foi bom, deixou a história mais interessante de ler. No geral, a leitura foi bem legal, só ficou meio maçante no final, pois me perdi na história e achei o final meio decepcionante.
Achei legal, porém, os temas de racismo ambientados na época, e como o autor usa dialetos para caracterizar mais os personagens.