GOING TO MEET THE MAN
In this modern classic, "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 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, Going to Meet the Man is a major work by one of the most important writers of the twentieth century.
JAMES BALDWIN
1924-1987 He was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews, and his essay collections Notes of a Native Son and The Fire Next Time were bestsellers that made him an influential figure in the growing civil rights movement. Baldwin spent much of his life in France, where he moved to escape the racism and homophobia of the United States. He died in France in 1987, a year after being made a Commander of the French Legion of Honor.
Edad recomendada: Adultos.
BALDWIN JAMES
James Baldwin 1924-1987 fue un influyente escritor, ensayista y activista afroamericano nacido en Harlem, Nueva York. Su obra abordó con profundidad temas como el racismo, la identidad, la religión y la sexualidad en Estados Unidos. Entre sus libros más destacados se encuentran Notas de un hijo nativo, La próxima vez el fuego y El cuarto de Giovanni. Baldwin vivió gran parte de su vida en Francia, desde donde reflexionó sobre la sociedad estadounidense y participó activamente en el movimiento por los derechos civiles.
