Giovanni’s Room
- 作者:James Baldwin
- 出版社:Penguin Group UK
- 出版日期:2001-10-04
- 語言:英文
- ISBN10:0141186356
- ISBN13:9780141186351
- 裝訂:平裝 / 176頁 / 19.6 x 12.4 x 1.2 cm / 普通級 / 單色印刷 / 初版
Considered an 'audacious' second novel, GIOVANNI'S ROOM is set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence. This now-classic story of a fated love triangle explores, with uncompromising clarity, the conflicts between desire, conventional morality and sexual identity.
作者簡介
Born in Harlem in 1924, Baldwin had an early career as a teenage preacher. He lived in Paris from 1948-1956 and his first novels, the autobiographical GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN and GIOVANNI'S ROOM established him as a promising novelist and anticipated some of the themes of his later works, such as racism and sexuality. He became a prominent spokesperson for racial equality, especially during the civil rights movement. He lived in France during his last years. Baldwin died in 1987.