James Baldwin: Collected Essays (LOA #98)

This is a beautiful volume of essays by the great James Baldwin, in perfect condition, and it arrived well packaged and protected. Fast service. Thank you very much!

Awesone author. If you are unfamiliar with James Baldwin's work, this book contains most of the essays one should start with.I must say, he had quite the crystal ball in front of him when he wrote these essays. Very insightful...

James Baldwin is the closest there is to George Orwell in the second part of the XXth Century, and has a range that makes all aspirants to write amaze, and his fellow writers simply pale. He is a superb novelist - see the plot of If Beale St could talk, recently made into an Oscar winning movie. But it is in his essays where he shines more. His various autobiographical notes put you right in the America of the sixties. His comments on race discrimitation (and violence) are the best written pieces on the racism of the Century. And YouTube allows us to see his many dissertations and TV debates, where he was always pitch-perfect, never beaten.As a coda - see I'm not your Negro after reading his books and try not to ask yourself over and over again, as he does repeatedly: what's the matter with human beings?

Je vous recommande d'acheter les 3 tomes: ces textes sont simplement magnifiques. Ces textes vous accompagne, vous poussent à sortir des sentiers battus.

In a world where racism, identity issues, "white mythologies" and freedom of speech are at the center of the debate, James Baldwin is an author that one should revisit, for the pleasure of reading wonderful prose and being confronted with an insightful mindset.