Notes of a Native Son – James Baldwin In Notes, Baldwin is much franker about the “condundrum of colour” than the complexity of his life as a gay man, perhaps because race could be rhetorically linked to a historical crime: “It is a fearful inheritance, for which untold multitudes, long ago, sold their birthright. Multitudes are doing so, until today. This horror has so welded past and present that it is virtually impossible and certainly meaningless to speak of it as occurring in time.” Robert McCrum, Guardian extract: 100 Best Nonfiction#JamesBaldwin#Guardian#observer


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Add to Calendar Europe/Paris Notes of a Native Son – James Baldwin In Notes, Baldwin is much franker about the “condundrum of colour” than the complexity of his life as a gay man, perhaps because race could be rhetorically linked to a historical crime: “It is a fearful inheritance, for which untold multitudes, long ago, sold their birthright. Multitudes are doing so, until today. This horror has so welded past and present that it is virtually impossible and certainly meaningless to speak of it as occurring in time.” Robert McCrum, Guardian extract: 100 Best Nonfiction#JamesBaldwin#Guardian#observer

Notes of a Native Son – James Baldwin

In Notes, Baldwin is much franker about the “condundrum of colour” than the complexity of his life as a gay man, perhaps because race could be rhetorically linked to a historical crime: “It is a fearful inheritance, for which untold multitudes, long ago, sold their birthright. Multitudes are doing so, until today. This horror has so welded past and present that it is virtually impossible and certainly meaningless to speak of it as occurring in time.”
Robert McCrum, Guardian extract: 100 Best Nonfiction
#libreria #libtriptych #robertmccrum#JamesBaldwin#Guardian#observer

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Notes of a Native Son – James Baldwin

In Notes, Baldwin is much franker about the “condundrum of colour” than the complexity of his life as a gay man, perhaps because race could be rhetorically linked to a historical crime: “It is a fearful inheritance, for which untold multitudes, long ago, sold their birthright. Multitudes are doing so, until today. This horror has so welded past and present that it is virtually impossible and certainly meaningless to speak of it as occurring in time.”
Robert McCrum, Guardian extract: 100 Best Nonfiction
#libreria #libtriptych #robertmccrum#JamesBaldwin#Guardian#observer

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