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Giovanni’s Room

James Baldwin

Paperback | Pages: 159 pages

Rating: 4.24 | 50603 Users | 4162 Reviews

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Original Title:	Giovanni's Room
ISBN:	0141186356 (ISBN13: 9780141186351)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Paris(France)

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Baldwin's haunting and controversial second novel is his most sustained treatment of sexuality, and a classic of gay literature. In a 1950s Paris swarming with expatriates and characterized by dangerous liaisons and hidden violence, an American finds himself unable to repress his impulses, despite his determination to live the conventional life he envisions for himself. After meeting and proposing to a young woman, he falls into a lengthy affair with an Italian bartender and is confounded and tortured by his sexual identity as he oscillates between the two.

Examining the mystery of love and passion in an intensely imagined narrative, Baldwin creates a moving and complex story of death and desire that is revelatory in its insight.

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Title	:	Giovanni’s Room
Author	:	James Baldwin
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 159 pages
Published	:	June 2000 by Penguin (first published 1956)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. LGBT. GLBT. Queer. Novels. Gay. Cultural. African American

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In James Baldwins words:They said I was a Negro writer and I would reach a very special audience. . . . And I would be dead if I alienated that audience. That, in effect, nobody would accept that bookcoming from me. . . . My agent told me to burn it. [the publishers] told me, This new book will ruin your career, and we wont publish this book as a favor to you. Fair enough, James Baldwin wanted to avoid being pigeonholed as a black writer. So made his protagonist here white. So here we have a

Best work of fiction I have read for months. Very french in terms of the claustrophobic discussions of lovers trapped in the miasma of cigarettes and doubt. I wanted to reach out and scream, to intervene, to prevent. A very powerful novel and a great way to kickstart pride month. What a fantastic introduction to the work of James Baldwin.

This is a tragedy of failed love in post-war Paris, featuring a protagonist as hard to judge as Camus' "The Stranger." The narrator, David, is a young man on an extended stay from the U.S. on parental funds, ostensibly to develop his writing skills, but in reality to play. A transient gay fling with an impoverished, artistic Bohemian leads to an idyllic cohabitation while his fiancé travels in the East. You know it didnt last from the beginning of the book, but as the affair proceeds, you feel

I am in awe of James Baldwin's seamless way with words. His writing shakes me to my very core, I feel so vividly all the emotions described, the contradicting war within the world and within the self between hot, flaming fire and ice cold water, between fervent heat and stone cold detachment. The motif of water and the ocean and its metaphorical association with time, Giovanni's room itself, the inescapable self and claustrophobia particularly struck me- I feel overwhelmed and shaken by this

A grim tale of human relations, told by one of the most unpleasant protagonists I've ever encountered. The story left me drained and angry, but it's an important book, and an exceptional read.

Baldwin picked up where Gore Vidal left off in The City & the Pillar. This novel renders Vidals effort a tame, breezy vacation at the hotel de homo, sizzling as it does with dirty-realist conflict, torturous identity politics, and one of the whiniest lovers since Courtney Love hooked up with the entire population of Iran. One frustrating conflictBaldwin wanted to escape the Negro writer ghetto, so made his characters (it would seem) white in this novel. Imagine the stink if hed written about

I like this more than the three stars would indicate. The melodrama was a problem for me. The plot is simple and brilliantly done. David the American doesnt want to admit he has homosexual impulses. His fiancée, Hella, doesnt know hes gay because David doesnt know it. David is confused, as his friend Jacques at one point remarks. Hes experiencing major cognitive dissonance, simultaneously knowing something and acting as if it werent so. For he has met the beautiful, the irresistible Giovanni.