James Balwdin
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Родился: 2 августа 1924 г., Нью-Йорк, США
Умер: 1 декабря 1987 г., Сен-Поль-де-Ванс, Франция
Джеймс Болдуин — романист, публицист, драматург, активный борец за права человека.
Родился в семье отчима-священника и был самым старшим из девяти детей. Своего родного отца Болдуин никогда не знал и отчасти страдал от этого, что отразилось в некоторых его произведениях («Скажи мне, когда ушёл поезд», «Иди вещай с горы», «Комната Джованни»). До окончания школы Болдуин идёт по стопам своего отчима и помогает ему в церкви. Но чем старше становится будущий писатель, тем отчётливее он понимает, что проповеди его отчима расходятся с тем, что творится на улицах Гарлема, и, самое главное, с поведением самого отчима дома. После окончания школы в Бронксе Болдуин переезжает в Гринвич-Виллидж, где и…
1954 — The Amen Corner
1964 — Blues for Mister Charlie
1955 — Notes of a Native Son [эссе]
1961 — Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son [эссе]
1963 — The Fire Next Time [эссе]
1965 — Going to Meet the Man [рассказы]
1972 — No Name in the Street [эссе]
1976 — The Devil Finds Work [эссе]
1983 — Jimmy's Blues…
• В возрасте 14 лет Джеймс стал священником.
• В последние годы жизни слабое здоровье Болдуина и злоупотребление спиртным стали причиной невысокого качества его книг. Тем не менее его авторитет общественного деятеля не ставился под сомнение ни в 1970-х, ни в 1980-х годах. В знак признания заслуг Болдуина его избрали в 1986 году командором ордена «Почетного легиона» при французском правительстве.
Сожму я в узел нить Меж сердцем и сознаньем. Хочу разъединить Себя с моим страданьем. <…> Покой и тишь во мне. Я волей круг мой сузил. . . . . . . . Но плачу я во сне, Когда слабеет узел... (Зинаида Гиппиус ‘’Узел’’)
За обманчивой легкостью, даже воздушностью, текста притаилась такая боль, что острыми шипами прошлась по оголенным нервным окончаниям; общая боль, наверное, любого человека, который хоть однажды пытался убежать от себя, пытался быть не собой, убежать от любви, кто хоть раз причинял боль любимому человеку. Так бывает... Мы все такие разные: женщины – мужчины, с разным цветом кожи, разными убеждениями, из разных культур и эпох, разных религиозных конфессий или атеисты, а объединяет нас одно – боль одиночества. Как же трудно, порой невыносимо, жить и наслаждаться свободой и…
Читать романы про геев не моё хобби. Мне куда приятнее наблюдать, как его руки скользят вверх по её ногам, нежели следить за тем, как он кладёт голову на мужскую грудь. Но проиграв этот роман в желания, у меня не осталось выбора. Я открыл дверь в комнату.
В её углу стоит пара пустых бутылок. На одной полке кричат конфликты и семейные драмы, на другой – подростковые сфинксы. Всё это цепляет, привлекает взгляд глубиной рассечения. Раскрывая окно и закуривая сигарету… приходит осознание, что эта комната далеко не книга про одних геев. Скорее здесь пахнет любовью, рефлексией и красным вином. Надо признать, что свежий парижский воздух приятно разбавляет этот спёртый запах. Если начертить схему персонажей романа, можно заметить явный квадрат.
Первая царапина на стене – Дэвид. Парнишка,…
Прочитал пьесу Джеймса Болдуина "Блюз для мистера Чарли" (ее можно найти в журнале "Иностранная литература", 1964, №11), основанную на реальных событиях - убийстве в 1955 году 14-летнего Эмметта Тилла в штате Миссисипи. Белая продавщица обвинила его в приставании. По разным версиям, Тилл присвистнул, обращаясь к Кэролин (что некоторыми расценивается как грубый комплимент, а другими — как следствие волнения подростка или проблем дикции), либо схватил её за руку и произнёс «непечатные» слова (так утверждала сама "жертва", позже признавшись, что этого не было). Несколько дней спустя муж Кэролин Рой и его сводный брат схватили Тилла, перевезли…
Я должен был разрушить эту нору и ввести Джованни в новую, лучшую жизнь.
- Джованни, - сказал я беспомощно, - будь осторожен. Пожалуйста, будь осторожен. Он насмешливо улыбнулся в ответ: - Спасибо. Ты должен был посоветовать это мне в тот вечер, когда мы встретились.
Там, где встречаются средства олигарха, упорство парламентария, мудрость ученого и находчивость предпринимателя, там рождается новая, сильная, счастливая Россия.
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“I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.”
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James Baldwin was an essayist, playwright, novelist and voice of the American civil rights movement known for works including 'Notes of a Native Son,' 'The Fire Next Time' and 'Go Tell It on the Mountain.'
Writer and playwright James Baldwin published the 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, receiving acclaim for his insights on race, spirituality and humanity. Other novels included Giovanni's Room, Another Country and Just Above My Head, as well as essays like Notes of a Native Son and The Fire Next Time.
Writer and playwright James Baldwin was born on August 2, 1924, in Harlem, New York. One of the 20th century's greatest writers, Baldwin broke new literary ground with the exploration of racial and social issues in his many works. He was especially known for his essays on the Black experience in America.
Baldwin was born to a young single mother, Emma Jones, at Harlem Hospital. She reportedly never told him the name of his biological father. Jones married a Baptist minister named David Baldwin when James was about three years old.
Despite their strained relationship, Baldwin followed in his stepfather's footsteps — who he always referred to as his father — during his early teen years. He served as a youth minister in a Harlem Pentecostal church from the ages of 14 to 16.
Baldwin developed a passion for reading at an early age and demonstrated a gift for writing during his school years. He attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, where he worked on the school's magazine with future famous photographer Richard Avedon.
Baldwin published numerous poems, short stories and plays in the magazine, and his early work showed an understanding for sophisticated literary devices in a writer of such a young age.
After graduating from high school in 1942, he had to put his plans for college on hold to help support his family, which included seven younger children. He took whatever work he could find, including laying railroad tracks for the U.S. Army in New Jersey.
During this time, Baldwin frequently encountered discrimination, being turned away from restaurants, bars and other establishments because he was African American. After being fired from the New Jersey job, Baldwin sought other work and struggled to make ends meet.
On July 29, 1943, Baldwin lost his father — and gained his eighth sibling the same day. He soon moved to Greenwich Village, a New York City neighborhood popular with artists and writers.
Devoting himself to writing a novel, Baldwin took odd jobs to support himself. He befriended writer Richard Wright, and through Wright, he was able to land a fellowship in 1945 to cover his expenses. Baldwin started getting essays and short stories published in such national periodicals as The Nation, Partisan Review and Commentary.
Three years later, Baldwin made a dramatic change in his life and moved to Paris on another fellowship. The shift in location freed Baldwin to write more about his personal and racial background.
"Once I found myself on the other side of the ocean, I see where I came from very clearly...I am the grandson of a slave, and I am a writer. I must deal with both," Baldwin once told The New York Times. The move marked the beginning of his life as a "transatlantic commuter," dividing his time between France and the United States.
Baldwin had his first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, published in 1953. The loosely autobiographical tale focused on the life of a young man growing up in Harlem grappling with father issues and his religion.
"Mountain is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else. I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal, above all, with my father," he later said.
In 1954, Baldwin received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He published his next novel, Giovanni's Room, the following year. The work told the story of an American living in Paris and broke new ground for its complex depiction of homosexuality, a then-taboo subject.
Love between men was also explored in a later Baldwin novel Just Above My Head (1978). The author would also use his work to explore interracial relationships, another controversial topic for the times, as seen in the 1962 novel Another Country.
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Baldwin was open about his homosexuality and relationships with both men and women. Yet he believed that the focus on rigid categories was just a way of limiting freedom and that human sexuality is more fluid and less binary than often expressed in the U.S.
"If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy," the writer said in a 1969 interview when asked if being gay was an aberration, asserting that such views were an indication of narrowness and stagnation.
Baldwin explored writing for the stage a well. He wrote The Amen Corner, which looked at the phenomenon of storefront Pentecostal religion. The play was produced at Howard University in 1955, and later on Broadway in the mid-1960s.
It was his essays, however, that helped establish Baldwin as one of the top writers of the times. Delving into his own life, he provided an unflinching look at the Black experience in America through such works as Notes of a Native Son (1955) and Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (1961).
Nobody Knows My Name hit the bestsellers list, selling more than a million copies. While not a marching or sit-in style activist, Baldwin emerged as one of the leading voices in the Civil Rights Movement for his compelling work on race.
In 1963, there was a noted change in Baldwin's work with The Fire Next Time. This collection of essays was meant to educate white Americans on what it meant to be Black. It also offered white readers a view of themselves through the eyes of the African American community.
In the work, Baldwin offered a brutally realistic picture of race relations, but he remained hopeful about possible improvements. "If we...do not falter in our duty now, we may be able...to end the racial nightmare." His words struck a chord with the American people, and The Fire Next Time sold more than a million copies.
That same year, Baldwin was featured on the cover of Time magazine. "There is not another writer — white or Black — who expresses with such poignancy and abrasiveness the dark realities of the racial ferment in North and South," Time said in the feature.
Baldwin wrote another play, Blues for Mister Charlie, which debuted on Broadway in 1964. The drama was loosely based on the 1955 racially motivated murder of a young African American boy named Emmett Till.
This same year, his book with friend Avedon entitled Nothing Personal, hit bookstore shelves. The work was a tribute to slain civil rights movement leader Medgar Evers. Baldwin also published a collection of short stories, Going to Meet the Man, around this time.
In his 1968 novel Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone, Baldwin returned to popular themes — sexuality, family and the Black experience. Some critics panned the novel, calling it a polemic rather than a novel. He was also criticized for using the first-person singular, the "I," for the book's narration.
By the early 1970s, Baldwin seemed to despair over the racial situation. He had witnessed so much violence in the previous decade — especially the assassinations of Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. — caused by racial hatred.
This disillusionment became apparent in his work, which employed a more strident tone than in earlier works. Many critics point to No Name in the Street, a 1972 collection of essays, as the beginning of the change in Baldwin's work. He also worked on a screenplay around this time, trying to adapt The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley for the big screen.
While his literary fame faded somewhat in his later years, Baldwin continued to produce new works in a variety of forms. He published a collection of poems, Jimmy's Blues: Selected Poems, in 1983 as well as the 1987 novel Harlem Quartet.
Baldwin also remained an astute observer of race and American culture. In 1985, he wrote The Evidence of Things Not Seen about the Atlanta child murders. Baldwin also spent years sharing his experiences and views as a college professor. In the years before his death, he taught at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Hampshire College.
Baldwin died on December 1, 1987, at his home in St. Paul de Vence, France. Never wanting to be a spokesperson or a leader, Baldwin saw his personal mission as bearing "witness to the truth." He accomplished this mission through his extensive, rapturous literary legacy.
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