Bücher von James Baldwin

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 timeDavid, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fianc e 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 fianc e returns and, denying his true nature, he rejects Giovanni for a 'safe' future as a married man. His decision eventually brings tragedy. Filled with passion, regret and longing, this story of a fated love triangle has become a landmark of gay writing. James Baldwin caused outrage as a black author writing about white homosexuals, yet for him the issues of race, sexuality and personal freedom were eternally intertwined.'Exquisite... a feat of fire-breathing, imaginative daring' Guardian'Excruciating beauty' San Francisco Chronicle 'Audacious... remarkable... elegant and courageous' Caryl Phillips

'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

The inspiration for the film from Oscar award-winning director Barry Jenkins'Achingly beautiful' Guardian Harlem in the 1970s: the black soul of New York City. Tish is nineteen and the man she loves - her lifelong friend and the father of her unborn child - has been jailed for a crime he did not commit. As their families come together to fight for his freedom, will their love be enough?'Soulful . . . Racial injustice may flatten "e;the black experience"e; into one single, fearful, constantly undermined way of life - but black life, black love, is so much larger than that . . . It's one of the signature lessons of Baldwin's work that blackness contains multitudes' Vanity Fair'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

The landmark work on race in America from James Baldwin, whose life and words are immortalized in the Oscar-nominated film I Am Not Your Negro'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation'James 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. 'Sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle ... all presented in searing, brilliant prose' The New York Times Book Review'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

The electrifying first novel from James Baldwin, whose life and words are immortalized in the Oscar-nominated film I Am Not Your Negro'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. 'A beautiful, enduring, spirtual song of a novel' Andrew O'Hagan'With vivid imagery, with lavish attention to details, Mr. Baldwin has told his feverish story' The New York Times

1950's Paris. After a homosexual experience in adolescence, David represses the impulses he finds unacceptable. In Paris he has an affair with Hella Lincoln, and proposes marriage. She considers his proposal on a trip to Spain, David has an affair lasting several months with Giovanni, an Italian bartender. Still unable to reconcile homosexuality with the life he envisions for himself, David travels with Hella, but is discovered by her in a gay bar with a sailor as he struggles to accept himself.

In this honest and stunning novel that inspired the award-winning major motion picture of the same name, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. "A major work of Black American fiction... His best novel yet, even Baldwin's most devoted readers are due to be stunned by it." -The New RepublicTold through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin's story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions-affection, despair, and hope. In a love story that evokes the blues, where passion and sadness are inevitably intertwined, Baldwin has created two characters so alive and profoundly realized that they are unforgettably ingrained in the American psyche.

'Let our novelists read Mr Baldwin and tremble. There is a whirlwind loose in the land' Sunday TimesWhen 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 T ib n'An almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience' Washington Post'Brilliantly and fiercely told' The New York Times

James Baldwin reist erstmals im Sommer 1951 nach Leukerbad, das, so denkt der Schriftsteller, wenig Ablenkung und somit optimale Voraussetzungen zum Schreiben bieten würde. Die sechshundert Menschen, die in dem von Bergen umringten Walliser Dorf leben, wo es kein Kino gibt und keine Bank, keine Bücherei und kein Theater, haben noch nie einen Schwarzen gesehen, die Kinder rufen ihm »N***r!« hinterher. Im Winter kehrt Baldwin noch zweimal zurück, schließt hier seinen ersten Roman ab und verfasst den Essay »Ein Fremder im Dorf«, der 1953 im Harper's Magazine erscheint. Ausgehend von der Erfahrung, der einzige Schwarze in einem ausschließlich von Weißen bewohnten Dorf zu sein, schreibt Baldwin über Rassismus und die Geschichte weißer Vorherrschaft. Mehr als sechzig Jahre später, im Sommer 2014, reist Teju Cole nach Leukerbad, Baldwins Essay im Gepäck. In »Schwarzer Körper« tritt Cole mit Baldwin in den Dialog. Sind die älteren Menschen, denen er auf der Straße begegnet, die Kinder von damals? Das Dorf ist gewachsen. Cole ist kein »staunenswerter Anblick«, ist nicht häufiger verstohlenen Blicken ausgesetzt als in Zürich oder New York. Sechzig Jahre trennen die beiden Autoren, ein Ort führt sie zusammen, und obwohl sich die Dinge geändert haben, besteht der Rassismus fort.

»Baldwin hält uns existentiell Menschliches vor Augen.« Sasha Marianna Salzmann, FAZ >Nach der Flut das FeuerKein Name bleibt ihm weit und breit< ist, neun Jahre später, eine Bestandsaufnahme dieser Zeit, eine schmerzliche Chronik des Verlusts. In atemberaubend persönlichen Einblicken legt Baldwin Zeugnis ab von einem Trauma, das ein kollektives ist: Er schreibt über seine Jahre in Paris, über Hollywood und Polizeigewalt; er schreibt über den Anzug, den er zur Beerdigung Martin Luther Kings trug, und schildert den Horror, dem er auf einer Reise durch den amerikanischen Süden ins Gesicht blickt. Ein zutiefst persönliches Buch und eine einzigartige Chronik der Sechziger- und Siebzigerjahre. Wahrhaftig und klar, mit brennendem Furor schreibt James Baldwin über die Erfahrungen, die ihn als Schriftsteller und Aktivisten prägten: von der Kindheit in Harlem über die Ermordung von Martin Luther King und Malcolm X bis hin zur Lebenswirklichkeit des amerikanischen Südens. »Baldwin ist inspirierend, unwiderstehlich, gnadenlos und unterhaltsam. Worte sind ihm wie Wellen dem Meer, fließend und pulsierend, an- und abschwellend.«  The New York Times Zum 100. Geburtstag von James Baldwin - dem großen Stilisten und der Ikone der Gleichberechtigung Neue Werkausstattung mit einem Vorwort von Ijoma Mangold

»Ein Triumph, der seinesgleichen sucht.« Washington Post Leidenschaftlich und mit bewegender Intimität erzählt Baldwin von einem Menschen am Scheideweg - und seinem qualvollen Ringen um Kompromisse, um die Liebe und die eigene Identität. Von den Straßen Harlems auf die Bühnen der Nation: Leo Proudhammer steigt zu einem der größten schwarzen Schauspieler seiner Zeit auf. Als ihn mitten während einer Vorstellung ein Herzinfarkt trifft, unterzieht er sein Leben einer Inventur. Von der Kindheit im Harlem der 1940er Jahre über die Jahre der brotlosen Kunst bis hin zum Durchbruch auf der Bühne. In einer Welt der Unterdrückung und Zwänge ist es immer wieder die Liebe, die ihm Halt gibt, über alle Schranken hinweg: zum älteren Bruder Caleb, der unschuldig ins Gefängnis geht. Zur weißen Schauspielerin Barbara King, zart schwebend und kompliziert, oder zum zornigen, stolzen Black Christopher. Wortgewaltig lotet Baldwin in seinem vierten Roman die Untiefen des Ruhmes aus und entwirft, so zärtlich wie universell, das Porträt eines Mannes und schwarzen Künstlers, der daran zu zerbrechen droht. »Sein herausragendstes Talent ist die Fähigkeit, Worte zu finden, deren Ausdruckskraft verblüffend und deren tiefe Wahrheit zugleich überwältigend ist.« The New York Times Zum 100. Geburtstag von James Baldwin - dem großen Stilisten und der Ikone der Gleichberechtigung. Neue Werkausstattung, mit einem Nachwort von Elmar Kraushaar.

In this classic book, Don Quixote, (who became utterly captivated by the enthralling tales of chivalry he devours), embarks on an audacious quest to become a knight himself. Accompanied by his loyal squire (the endearing Sancho Panza), the errant knight's adventures unfurl in a tapestry of wondrous and unexpected ways. While Quixote's boundless imagination often leads him astray (he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants), Sancho emerges with a growing cunning and certain sagacity. Together (as sane madman and wise fool), they roam the world-and together, they have continued to inhabit the dreams and imaginations of readers for nearly four centuries.It's easy to focus on the adventures (or misadventures) of Don and Sancho in this book. To the surface reader, the classic simply describes (in a very exciting way) the unnecessary chaos and suffering caused by a would-be knight driven mad by over-reading the works of chivalry. More than that, however, Don Quixote gave birth to a new art form-a secular novel depicting disenchantment with the modern world. Wrapped into the text (as stories with potentially hidden meanings) is the tale of heroic daughter of a Moor who steals her father's riches and flees to Christendom. There is also a foolish Christian who steals her father's riches to run off with a soldier. And there is more, much more.In addition to being one of the most translated and frequently read books of all time, Don Quixote delves into themes related to literature and cultural modernity. To the discerning reader, this exciting tale is much more than the story of a chivalrous madman in search of days gone by-it is a thought-provoking book about virtues lost and the shared human condition.

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James Baldwin (1841-1925) was an American educator and administrator. He served as the superintendent of Indiana's school system for 18 years and then went on to become a widely published textbook editor and children's author in the subjects of legends, mythology, biography, and literature, among others. He was one of the most prolific authors of school books for children at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. In addition to the Baldwin Readers (1897), he co-authored the Harper Readers (1888) and the Expressive Readers (1911). He wrote over thirty books about famous people in history and retold classical stories. His publications numbered 54 volumes. It is estimated that 26 million copies of his works sold worldwide, including in China and Indonesia.

James Baldwin (1841-1925) was an American educator and administrator. He served as the superintendent of Indiana's school system for 18 years and then went on to become a widely published textbook editor and children's author in the subjects of legends, mythology, biography, and literature, among others. He was one of the most prolific authors of school books for children at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. In addition to the Baldwin Readers (1897), he co-authored the Harper Readers (1888) and the Expressive Readers (1911). He wrote over thirty books about famous people in history and retold classical stories. His publications numbered 54 volumes. It is estimated that 26 million copies of his works sold worldwide, including in China and Indonesia.

James Baldwin (1841-1925) was an American educator and administrator. He served as the superintendent of Indiana's school system for 18 years and then went on to become a widely published textbook editor and children's author in the subjects of legends, mythology, biography, and literature, among others. He was one of the most prolific authors of school books for children at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. In addition to the Baldwin Readers (1897), he co-authored the Harper Readers (1888) and the Expressive Readers (1911). He wrote over thirty books about famous people in history and retold classical stories. His publications numbered 54 volumes. It is estimated that 26 million copies of his works sold worldwide, including in China and Indonesia.

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"Probing perhaps more deeply than ever before into American racial practices." -The NationBaldwin's personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also an appraisal of American racial politics. Offering an incisive look at racism in American movies and a vision of America's self-delusions and deceptions, Baldwin challenges the underlying assumptions in such films as In the Heat of the Night, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, and The Exorcist. Here are our loves and hates, biases and cruelties, fears and ignorance reflected by the films that have entertained us and shaped our consciousness. And here too is the stunning prose of a writer whose passion never diminished his struggle for equality, justice, and social change.