James Baldwin

Baldwinův strhující kontroverzní román je jeho nejdůslednějším zpracováním sexuality a klasikou gay literatury. V Paříži padesátých let, která se hemží emigranty a vyznačuje se nebezpečnými známostmi a skrytým násilím, zjišťuje Američan, že navzdory svému odhodlání žít konvenční život, jaký si sám představuje, nedokáže potlačit své pudy. Poté, co se seznámí s mladou ženou a požádá ji o ruku, propadne románku s italským barmanem – je zmaten a mučen svou sexuální identitou. BBC zařadila Giovanniho pokoj mezi 100 nejinspirativnějších románů napsaných anglicky. Kultovní dílo z roku 1956 vychází česky vůbec poprvé.

Giovanniho izba je príbeh Američana v Paríži päťdesiatych rokov. David práve požiadal o ruku svoju priateľku Hellu, no vzápätí sa zamiluje do Giovanniho, talianskeho barmana. Táto túžba ho zároveň napĺňa odporom. Baldwin s mimoriadnou psychologickou presnosťou sleduje napätie medzi túžbou, hanbou, blízkosťou a strachom. Nie nadarmo patrí medzi kľúčové osobnosti americkej literatúry 20. storočia.

„Neexistuje způsob, jak netrpět. Ale člověk zkouší různé způsoby, jak se v tom neutopit.“ Muži a ženy v těchto osmi krátkých povídkách tuto pravdu chápou na elementární úrovni a jejich příběhy v podání Jamese Baldwina podrobně popisují důmyslné a často zoufalé způsoby, jak se snaží udržet nad vodou. Může to být heroin, který bere jazzový pianista na dně, aby čelil hrůze z toho, že svůj život vložil do neživého nástroje. Může to být křehká zbožnost otce, který nikdy nedokáže odpustit svému synovi jeho neschopnost žít v manželství. Nebo to může být zástěna bigotnosti, kterou vztyčil buranský poslanec, aby otupil strašlivou vzpomínku z dětství, kdy s rodiči viděl, jak rozjařený dav vraždí černocha.

„Neexistuje způsob, jak netrpět. Ale člověk zkouší různé způsoby, jak se v tom neutopit.“ Muži a ženy v těchto osmi krátkých povídkách tuto pravdu chápou na elementární úrovni a jejich příběhy v podání Jamese Baldwina podrobně popisují důmyslné a často zoufalé způsoby, jak se snaží udržet nad vodou. Může to být heroin, který bere jazzový pianista na dně, aby čelil hrůze z toho, že svůj život vložil do neživého nástroje. Může to být křehká zbožnost otce, který nikdy nedokáže odpustit svému synovi jeho neschopnost žít v manželství. Nebo to může být zástěna bigotnosti, kterou vztyčil buranský poslanec, aby otupil strašlivou vzpomínku z dětství, kdy s rodiči viděl, jak rozjařený dav vraždí černocha.

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.

An illustrated edition of James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time, with photographs by Steve Schapiro First published in 1963, James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America’s so-called “Negro problem.” As remarkable for its masterful prose as for its frank and personal account of the black experience in the United States, it is considered one of the most passionate and influential explorations of 1960s race relations, weaving thematic threads of love, faith, and family into a candid assault on the hypocrisy of the “land of the free.” Now, James Baldwin’s rich, raw, and ever relevant prose is reprinted with more than 100 photographs from Steve Schapiro, who traveled the American South with Baldwin for Life magazine. The encounter thrust Schapiro into the thick of the movement, allowing for vital, often iconic, images both of civil rights leaders—including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Fred Shuttlesworth, and Jerome Smith—and such landmark events as the March on Washington and the Selma march. Rounding out the edition are Schapiro’s stories from the field, an original introduction by civil rights legend and U.S. Congressman John Lewis, captions by journalist Marcia Davis, and an essay by Gloria Baldwin Karefa-Smart, who was with her brother James in Sierra Leone when he started to work on the story. The result is a remarkable visual and textual record of one of the most important and enduring struggles of the American experience. First published as a TASCHEN Collector’s Edition, now available in a pocket-sized Centennial Edition.

In 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.

A beautiful new Clothbound edition of Baldwin's ground-breaking novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his time David, 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.

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.

irst published in 1963, James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America's so-called "Negro problem." As remarkable for its masterful prose as for its frank and personal account of the black experience in the United States, it is considered one of the most passionate and influential explorations of 1960s race relations, weaving thematic threads of love, faith, and family into a candid assault on the hypocrisy of the "land of the free." Now, James Baldwin's rich, raw, and ever relevant prose is reprinted with more than 100 photographs from Steve Schapiro, who traveled the American South with Baldwin for Life magazine. The encounter thrust Schapiro into the thick of the movement, allowing for vital, often iconic, images both of civil rights leaders-including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Fred Shuttlesworth, and Jerome Smith-and such landmark events as the March on Washington and the Selma march. Rounding out the edition are Schapiro's stories from the field, an original introduction by civil rights legend and U.S. Congressman John Lewis, captions by Marcia Davis of The Marshall Project, and an essay by Gloria Baldwin Karefa-Smart, who was with her brother James in Sierra Leone when he started to work on the story. The result is a remarkable visual and textual record of one of the most important and enduring struggles of the American experience.First published as a TASCHEN Collector's Edition, now available in a popular edition.

The inspiration for the new film from Oscar award-winning director Barry Jenkins '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 Oates

'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 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.

Fonny, a szobrászfiú, és szerelme, a tizenkilenc éves Tish Harlem egyik feketék lakta utcájában tervezi a közös jövőt. Amikor a fiút egy Puerto Rico-i asszony megerőszakolásának vádjával börtönbe zárják, a lány és családja mindent megtesz, hogy összegyűjtsék az óvadékra és az ügyvédre valót. James Baldwin kultikus kisregényében az első gyermekét váró Tish szenvedélyes monológjából ismerjük meg az igazságért folytatott küzdelmet. Ám bármilyen kilátástalannak tűnjön is a helyzet, a lány sosem felejti el, hogy van, amit még egy végletekig igazságtalan társadalom sem képes elvenni az embertől: a remény és a szerelem. Tish harcából az Oscar-díjas Holdfény rendezője, Barry Jenkins készített filmet.

Richard Avedon's State of the Union Avedon and Baldwin's seminal book brought back to life In 1964, Richard Avedon, at the time the world's most famous fashion photographer, and James Baldwin, America's best-known black writer collaborated on a searing portrait book Nothing Personal. This controversal classic from the Mad Men era explores the contradictions and extremities at the heart of the American experience, and is especially timely in the age of Donald Trump. Avedon's subjects range from intellectuals, politicians, former slaves, newlyweds, society ladies, artists, and civil rights activists, shot in his signature formal and graphic black and white, often tightly cropped. The collection is all the more poignant through its direct juxtaposition of specific images, such as the Jewish and gay intellectual Allen Ginsberg placed opposite the American Nazi Party. Avedon's work with mental asylum patients, shot in a grainy documentary style, is equally harrowing, although he chooses to end Nothing Personal on a hopeful, positive note, with photographs of children and parents bonding together in the Californian ocean. The photographs are complemented by four untitled essays by Baldwin, a stream of consciousness and critique of a society that he feels is unjust, alienating, divisive, and therefore in the midst of an existential crisis. In a highly personal and pertinent testimony, Baldwin openly writes about his own experience of harassment by a racist policeman on the streets of New York. Designed by Marvin Israel, Nothing Personal is also an art-directed triumph. An "oversized" book in its own white slipcase, the minimal and striking placement of images and text alike revolutionized the packaging of photography books. This is a meticulous reprint of the original, which has long been out of print, produced in close collaboration with the Richard Avedon Foundation. A 72-page accompanying booklet features never before seen outtakes, portraits of Avedon at work, correspondence, ephemera, and an essay by Balwin expert and Pulitzer Prize winner Hilton Als. Als traces the making of Nothing Personal and documents the personal and creative relationship between Avedon and Baldwin, who were high school friends in the 1940s. Nothing Personal's dark, disturbing vision of America has inevitably divided critics, and Avedon in particular endured some harsh criticism. Some felt that a fashion photographer had no place in dabbling in social commentary, while others found his book to be an elitist statement by New York liberals, unrepresentative of the true feelings of "real" Americans. Sound familiar?

An engaging introduction to four of the greatest Americans George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Webster, and Abraham Lincoln. Their lives are set forth in a simple manner, yet with many interesting details, and a glimpse is given of the trials and successes which combined to mold their character and afford such stirring examples for the youth of today.

Includes fifty legendary tales depicting certain romantic episodes in the lives of well known heroes and famous men, or in the history of a people. Children naturally take a deep interest in such stories. The reading of them will not only give pleasure but will lay the foundation for broader literary studies, as nearly all are the subjects of frequent allusions in poetry and prose.