The Fire Next Time
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Beschrijving
Sounds a clarion warning to the world.
His prophetic warning
. . . Baldwin’s words can still bring clarity to our conversations about injustice today
Riveting . . . part of Baldwin's enduring power is that he was not a political thinker. He was interested in the soul's dark spaces much more than in the body politic.
The great poet-prophet of the civil rights movement ... his seminal work
Sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle . . . all presented in searing, brilliant prose
Baldwin writes with great passion ... it reeks of truth, as the ghettoes of New York and London, Chicago and Manchester reek of our hypocrisy
A true prophet . . . his thought and its utterance are nothing less than majestical
James Baldwin
was born in 1924 in New York. His first novel,
Go Tell It on the Mountain
(1953), which evokes his experiences as a boy preacher in Harlem, was an immediate success. Baldwin’s second novel,
Giovanni's Room
(1956) has become a landmark of gay literature and
Another Country
(1962) caused a literary sensation. His searing essay collections
Notes of a Native Son
(1955) and
Nobody Knows My Name
(1961) contain many of the works that made him an influential figure in the Civil Rights Movement. Baldwin published several other collections of non-fiction, including
The Fire Next Time
(1963) and
No Name in the Street
(1972). His short stories are collected in
Going to Meet the Man
(1965). His later works include the novels
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
(1968),
If Beale Street Could Talk
(1974) and
Just Above My Head
(1979).
James Baldwin won a number of literary fellowships: a Eugene F. Saxon Memorial Trust Award, a Rosenwald Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a
Partisan Review
Fellowship and a Ford Foundation grant. He was made a Commander of the Legion of Honour in 1986. He died in 1987 in France
