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Giovannis rum

AvJames Baldwin

Inbunden, Svenska, 2024

239 kr

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En av 1900-talets mest inflytelserika romaner

»En av vår tids få riktiga författare.« Norman Mailer

Den unge amerikanen David friar till sin flickvän Helle, men hon är tveksam och lämnar honom i Paris för att i stället resa till Spanien och fundera över deras förhållande. Ensam, utan jobb och pengar, hamnar David på en bar där han träffar den vackra servitören Giovanni. Kvällen slutar med att David följer med Giovanni hem, och de två männen inleder en passionerad kärleksaffär. Paret tillbringar sina dagar vandrande genom Paris, nätterna i Giovannis nedgångna lägenhet. Det är första gången på länge David känner sig lycklig, men trots det vill han inte erkänna sin egen läggning och de begär han upplever. När Helle återvänder väljer han därför henne framför kärleken till Giovanni. Samtidigt tar Giovannis liv en dramatisk vändning. Giovannis rum [1956], James Baldwins andra roman, är en milstolpe inom queerlitteraturen och finns med på BBC:s lista över 100 romaner som format vår värld. I översättning av Martin Rogberg, med ett nyskrivet förord av Kristofer Folkhammar.

JAMES BALDWIN [1924-1987] var en amerikansk författare och medborgarrättsaktivist. Han skrev romaner, pjäser, essäer och poesi. 1986 tilldelades han franska Hederslegionen.

»Om Van Gogh var 1800-talets konstnärshelgon är James Baldwin 1900-talets.« Michael Ondaatje

En svart mans anteckningar

AvJames Baldwin

Inbunden, Svenska, 2021

259 kr

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Utsedd till en av tidernas 100 bästa böcker av The Guardian

I sin epokgörande essäsamling kartlägger James Baldwin vad det innebär att vara svart i det moderna USA. Baldwin räknas sedan länge till 1900-talets främsta amerikanska författare; tillsammans med Langston Hughes, Richard Wright och Toni Morrison utgör han ryggraden i landets svarta litteratur. När En svart mans anteckningar - utsedd till en av 1900-talets bästa böcker av såväl Modern Library som The Guardian - gavs ut 1955 hade bokens tio essäer tidigare publicerats i tidskrifter som Harper's Magazine, Partisan Review och The New Leader. Titelessän är ett minnesarbete: En paranoid far dör i tuberkulos, samtidigt som författaren för första gången upplever den amerikanska söderns statsrasism. Texterna speglar den klarsyn, vrede, intelligens och mänsklighet som gjort Baldwins böcker till moderna klassiker.

För första gången på 65 år tillgängliggörs nu James Baldwins mästerverk på nytt, här i reviderad översättning, och med ett nyskrivet förord av författaren och journalisten Judith Kiros.

JAMES BALDWIN föddes 1924 och växte upp i Harlem under fattiga omständigheter. Vid 24 års ålder flyttade han till Paris, och levde därefter större delen av sitt liv i Frankrike. Förutom romaner och essäer skrev han dramatik och poesi. Han var aktivist i Medborgarrättsrörelsen och The Gay Liberation Movement.

»James Baldwins brinnande samhällskritik ger ny genklang i ett splittrat USA.« | Washington Post

»James Baldwins mest definierande verk - och hans bästa.« | Time

»Jag önskar att jag kunde sätta denna bok i händerna på varje amerikan - eller rättare sagt varje människa.« | Celeste Ng, The Guardian

Giovanni's Room

AvJames Baldwin

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

129 kr

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Baldwin's ground-breaking second novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his time'Audacious... remarkable... elegant and courageous' Caryl PhillipsDavid, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancée to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giovanni, a handsome Italian barman, the two men are drawn into an intense affair. After three months David's fiancée returns and, denying who he is, he rejects Giovanni for a 'safe' future as a married man. It is a decision that will bring tragedy.'Exquisite, a feat of fire-breathing, imaginative daring' Guardian'Gorgeous, fearless, tempered by dark knowledge and pain ... the greatest American prose stylist of his generation' Colm Tóibín'A layered exploration of queer desire ... It is electric' Hilton Als

Go Tell it on the Mountain

AvJames Baldwin

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

139 kr

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James Baldwin's electrifying first novel.'I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.'Drawing on James Baldwin's own boyhood in a religious community in 1930s Harlem, his first novel tells the story of young Johnny Grimes. Johnny is destined to become a preacher like his father, Gabriel, at the Temple of the Fire Baptized, where the church swells with song and it is as if 'the Holy Ghost were riding on the air'. But he feels only scalding hatred for Gabriel, whose fear and fanaticism lead him to abuse his family. Johnny vows that, for him, things will be different. This blazing tale is full of passion and guilt, of secret sinners and prayers singing on the wind. 'His prose hit me, almost winding me with its intensity. I'd never read a novel that described loneliness and desire with such burning eloquence' Douglas Field, Guardian'A beautiful, enduring, spirtual song of a novel' Andrew O'Hagan

Giovanni's Room

AvJames Baldwin

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'Baldwin's ground-breaking second novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his time'Audacious... remarkable... elegant and courageous' Caryl Phillips'Exquisite, a feat of fire-breathing, imaginative daring' GuardianDavid, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancée to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giovanni, a handsome Italian barman, the two men are drawn into an intense affair. After three months David's fiancée returns and, denying his sexuality, he rejects Giovanni for a 'safe' future as a married man — a decision that will bring tragedy, longing and regret.'Gorgeous, fearless, tempered by dark knowledge and pain ... the greatest American prose stylist of his generation' Colm Tóibín'A layered exploration of queer desire ... It is electric' Hilton Als

Giovanni's Room

AvJames Baldwin

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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A beautiful new Clothbound edition of Baldwin's ground-breaking novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his time'Audacious... remarkable... elegant and courageous' Caryl Phillips'Exquisite, a feat of fire-breathing, imaginative daring' GuardianDavid, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancée to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giovanni, a handsome Italian barman, the two men are drawn into an intense affair. After three months David's fiancée returns and, denying his sexuality, he rejects Giovanni for a 'safe' future as a married man — a decision that will bring tragedy, longing and regret.'Gorgeous, fearless, tempered by dark knowledge and pain ... the greatest American prose stylist of his generation' Colm Tóibín'A layered exploration of queer desire ... It is electric' Hilton Als

Fire Next Time

AvJames Baldwin

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

79 kr

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books‘It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate’Told in the form of two intensely personal 'letters', The Fire Next Time is an excoriating condemnation of the terrible legacy of racial injustice, drawn from Baldwin's early life in Harlem and his experience as a prominent cultural figure of the civil rights movement.

If Beale Street Could Talk

AvJames Baldwin

Häftad, Engelska, 1994

149 kr

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'Achingly beautiful' Guardian Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. The narrator of Baldwin's novel is Tish nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail accused of rape. Flashbacks from their love affair are woven into the compelling struggle of two families to win justice for Fonny. To this love story James Baldwin brings a spare and impassioned intensity, charging it with universal resonance and power.'If Beale Street Could Talk affirms not only love between a man and a woman, but love of a type that is dealt with only rarely in contemporary fiction - that between members of a family' Joyce Carol OatesThe inspiration for Oscar award-winning film

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

AvJames Baldwin

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

139 kr

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In this tender, impassioned fourth novel, James Baldwin created one of his most striking characters: a man struggling to become himself.'Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it'At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, we see the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into the world of the theatre lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. And everywhere there is the anguish of being black in a society that seems poised on the brink of racial war. In this tender, angry 1968 novel, James Baldwin created one of his most striking characters: a man struggling to become himself.'The emotion surrounding family attachment... is deeply felt and is one reasons he continues to be read with such intensity' Colm Tóibín

Fire Next Time

AvJames Baldwin

Häftad, Engelska, 1990

129 kr

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'Sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle ... all presented in searing, brilliant prose' The New York Times Book Review We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nationJames Baldwin's impassioned plea to 'end the racial nightmare' in America was a bestseller when it appeared in 1963, galvanising a nation and giving voice to the emerging civil rights movement. Told in the form of two intensely personal 'letters', The Fire Next Time is at once a powerful evocation of Baldwin's early life in Harlem and an excoriating condemnation of the terrible legacy of racial injustice.'A seminal meditation on race by one of our greatest writers' Barack Obama'Baldwin writes with great passion ... it reeks of truth, as the ghettoes of New York and London, Chicago and Manchester reek of our hypocrisy' Sunday Times'The great poet-prophet of the civil rights movement ... his seminal work' Guardian

Nobody Knows My Name

More Notes Of A Native Son

AvJames Baldwin

Häftad, Engelska, 1991

152 kr

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'These essays ... live and grow in the mind' James Campbell, IndependentBeing a writer, says James Baldwin in this searing collection of essays, requires 'every ounce of stamina he can summon to attempt to look on himself and the world as they are'. His seminal 1961 follow-up to Notes on a Native Son shows him responding to his times and exploring his role as an artist with biting precision and emotional power: from polemical pieces on racial segregation and a journey to 'the Old Country' of the Southern states, to reflections on figures such as Ingmar Bergman and André Gide, and on the first great conference of African writers and artists in Paris.'Brilliant...accomplished...strong...vivid...honest...masterly' The New York Times'A bright and alive book, full of grief, love and anger' Chicago Tribune

Going To Meet The Man

AvJames Baldwin

Häftad, Engelska, 1991

145 kr

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‘Everyone’s life begins on a level where races, armies, and churches stop. And yet everyone’s life is always shaped by races, churches, and armies’In these eight extraordinary stories of love, conflict, desperation and fear, James Baldwin shows people trapped by the roles they must play in society, and those who try and escape them.From the child in ‘The Rockpile’ whose God-fearing father will not forgive his illegitimacy, to the adolescent who hides his sexuality from his community in ‘The Outing’, and from the down-and-out jazz pianist recovering from addiction in ‘Sonny’s Blues’ to the chilling initiation of a racist in ‘Going to Meet the Man’, these tales, first published in 1965, explore the subtle and profound wounds that discrimination leaves – both in its victims and its perpetrators. ‘He uses words as the sea uses waves’ Langston Hughes'Few, it seems to me, have driven their words with such passion' Guardian

Just Above My Head

AvJames Baldwin

Häftad, Engelska, 1994

133 kr

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'This is the work of a born storyteller at the height of his powers' Edmund White, Washington PostWhen Arthur Montana, world-renowned 'Emperor of Soul', is found dead in a London pub, his grief-stricken brother looks back over thirty years in the lives of their group of friends: from their childhood spent preaching and singing in Harlem churches, to their struggles with war and poverty, and their encounters with wealth, love and fame.Set against a vividly drawn background of the civil rights movement of the sixties, Baldwin's last novel is a monumental saga that ranges from New York to Paris, Korea to Africa to portray how profoundly racial politics can shape life, especially in the private business of love.'Warm, melancholy . . . Hall Montana's voice is the conduit for Baldwin's most distinctive quality as a writer, his abundant tenderness' The New York Times

Another Country

AvJames Baldwin

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

169 kr

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'A masterwork... an almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience' Washinton PostWhen Another Country appeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York. Self-destructive, bad and brilliant, he draws us into a Bohemian underworld pulsing with heat, music and sex, where desperate and dangerous characters betray, love and test each other to the limit.'In Another Country, Baldwin created the essential American drama of the century' Colm Tóibín

I Am Not Your Negro

AvJames Baldwin,Raoul Peckm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

122 kr

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The New York Times bestseller based on the Oscar nominated documentary filmIn June 1979, the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin embarked on a project to tell the story of America through the lives of three of his murdered friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. He died before it could be completed. In his documentary film, I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck imagines the book Baldwin never wrote, using his original words to create a radical, powerful and poetic work on race in the United States - then, and today. 'Thrilling . . . A portrait of one man's confrontation with a country that, murder by murder, as he once put it, "devastated my universe"' The New York Times'Baldwin's voice speaks even more powerfully today . . . the prose-poet of our injustice and inhumanity . . . The times have caught up with his scalding eloquence' Variety'A cinematic séance . . . One of the best movies about the civil rights era ever made' Guardian'I Am Not Your Negro turns James Baldwin into a prophet' Rolling Stone

Notes of a Native Son

AvJames Baldwin

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

149 kr

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'The story of the negro in America is the story of America ... it is not a very pretty story'James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over Harlem in the 1940s, movies, novels, his preacher father and his experiences of Paris, they capture the complexity of black life at the dawn of the civil rights movement with effervescent wit and prophetic wisdom. 'A classic ... In a divided America, James Baldwin's fiery critiques reverberate anew' Washington Post'Edgy and provocative, entertainingly satirical' Robert McCrum, Guardian'Cemented his reputation as a cultural seer ... Notes of a Native Son endures as his defining work, and his greatest' Time

Dark Days

AvJames Baldwin

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

59 kr

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'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded'Drawing on Baldwin's own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, these searing essays - Dark Days, The Price of the Ticket and The White Man's Guilt - blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better world.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

No Name in the Street

AvJames Baldwin

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

134 kr

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'Candid, insightful, moving . . . a memoir, a chronicle of and commentary on America's abortive civil-rights movement' -The New York TimesIn this deeply personal book, Baldwin reflects on the experiences that shaped him as a writer and activist: from his childhood in Harlem to the deaths Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. Exploring the visceral reality of life in the American South as well as Baldwin’s impressions of London, Paris and Hamburg, No Name in the Street grapples with the failed promises of global liberation movements in fearless, candid prose. Timeless, tender and profound, Baldwin’s searing narrative contains the multiplicities of what it means to be Black in America and, indeed, around the world.