Going to Meet the Man

James Baldwin

Vintage

2013

256 páginas

8h 32m

ISBN-13: 9780804149754

"There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their head above water. It may be the heroin that a down-and-out jazz pianist uses to face the terror of pouring his life into an inanimate instrument. It may be the brittle piety of a father who can never forgive his son for his illegitimacy. Or it may be the screen of bigotry that a redneck deputy has raised to blunt the awful childhood memory of the day his parents took him to watch a black man being murdered by a gleeful mob. By turns haunting, heartbreaking, and horrifying--and informed throughout by Baldwin's uncanny knowledge of the wounds racism has left in both its victims and its perpetrators--Going to Meet the Man is a major work by one of our most important writers.

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Sr. Baldwin e seus pequenos blues

[...] Baldwin me fez pensar a dor e a comoção na maneira menos objetiva possível; me direcionando para uma leitura da superfície do conto na qual as músicas referenciadas, os sentidos figurados, as digressões e os não-ditos são possibilidades de pensar o íntimo e particular nessas histórias. Sua compreensão narra tão excelentemente as agudezas e as deturpações de espírito do seu território natal que é impossível não estar, 100 anos depois do seu nascimento, se debatendo na maneira como ele viveu a vida que cantou em suas histórias. E como deixou elas para nós. [...]

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