Talking at the Gates: A Life of James BaldwinA literary biography describing the life, friends, and work of the American author. |
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Page 60
... essay ' Equal in Paris ' , Baldwin casts himself as a Charlie Chaplin figure , always on the losing end , enduring accumulating misfortunes with an optimism founded on the belief that nothing worse can happen than this - though it ...
... essay ' Equal in Paris ' , Baldwin casts himself as a Charlie Chaplin figure , always on the losing end , enduring accumulating misfortunes with an optimism founded on the belief that nothing worse can happen than this - though it ...
Page 63
... essay is today regarded as a classic statement on the literature of protest . It marks a graduation from Baldwin's ... essay from the new . That was all there was to it . But he was very angry . ' On the day the essay was published in ...
... essay is today regarded as a classic statement on the literature of protest . It marks a graduation from Baldwin's ... essay from the new . That was all there was to it . But he was very angry . ' On the day the essay was published in ...
Page 93
... essays - apart from mentioning the fact that he is writing one or expecting payment for one - there is scarcely a word . When Baldwin discloses his sense of himself as a writer , it is always as a writer of fiction . Yet it is the essay ...
... essays - apart from mentioning the fact that he is writing one or expecting payment for one - there is scarcely a word . When Baldwin discloses his sense of himself as a writer , it is always as a writer of fiction . Yet it is the essay ...
Contents
Lord I aint No Stranger | 47 |
A Severe Cross | 115 |
Tear This Building Down | 187 |
Copyright | |
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