GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN

James Baldwin

Publié par VINTAGE USA, le 12 septembre 2013

240 pages

Résumé

Mountain , Baldwin said, is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else. Go Tell It on the Mountain , originally published in 1953, is Baldwins first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boys discovery one Saturday in March of 1935 of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a Pentecostal storefront church in Harlem. Baldwins rendering of his protagonists spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle toward self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves.