EAN: 9780374178710

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Drawing on new archival material original research and interviews this spellbinding book is the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades revealing how profoundly his personal relationships shaped his life and work. Baldwin: A Love Story the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades reveals how profoundly the writer's personal relationships shaped his life and work. Drawing on newly uncovered archival material and original research and interviews this spellbinding book tells the overlapping stories of Baldwin's most sustaining intimate and artistic relationships: with his mentor the Black American painter Beauford Delaney with his lover and muse the Swiss painter Lucien Happersberger and with his collaborators the famed Turkish actor Engin Cezzar and the iconoclastic French artist Yoran Cazac whose long-overlooked significance as Baldwin's last great love is explored in these pages for the first time. Nicholas Boggs shows how Baldwin drew on all the complex forces within these relationships-geographical cultural political artistic and erotic-and alchemized them into novels essays and plays that speak truth to power and had an indelible impact on the civil rights movement and on Black and queer literary history. Richly immersive Baldwin: A Love Story follows the writer's creative journey between Harlem Paris Switzerland the southern United States Istanbul Africa the South of France and beyond. In so doing it magnifies our understanding of the public and private lives of one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century whose contributions only continue to grow in influence.

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