„james baldwin”

Drugie, poprawione wydanie tomu esejów wybitnego amerykańskiego pisarza i działacza na rzecz praw obywatelskich Jamesa Baldwina. Znajdziemy tu jego szkice poświęcone afroamerykańskiej literaturze i kinematografii oraz głębokie, przejmujące eseje, w których w wyjątkowy sposób łączył zapis osobistego doświadczenia z refleks...

The New York Times bestseller based on the Oscar nominated documentary film In June 1979, the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin embarked on a project to tell the story of America through the lives of three of his murdered friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. He died before it could be c...

We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation' James Baldwin's impassioned plea to 'end the racial nightmare' in America was a bestseller when it appeared in 1963, galvanising a nation and giving voice to the emerging civil rights movement. Told in the form of two intensel...

Adaptacja filmowa otrzymała 3 nominacje do Złotych Globów i 3 nominacje do Oscarów Harlem, Nowy Jork. Tish i Fonny byli razem zawsze. Dorastali w jednej dzielnicy, w jednej społeczności, a ich miłość rosła wraz z nimi. Niepostrzeżenie stała się dla nich najważniejsza. I chociaż nie mają nic prócz siebie, Tish wierzy, że bę...

Opis książki/treści: Bardzo popularna adaptacja dla dzieci najsłynniejszej powieści podróżniczo-przygodowej Daniela Defoe w specjalnym przełożeniu według metody I.Franka. Powieść o Robinsonie Crusoe z jej różnymi adaptacjami cieszyła się ogromną popularnością od roku jej wydania aż do dziś. Postać Robinsona (a także Pięta...

"Nothing but the darkness, and all around them destruction, and before them nothing but the fire - -a bastard people, far from God, singing and crying in the wilderness!" First published in 1953, Baldwin's first novel is a short but intense, semi-autobiographical exploration of the troubled life of the Grimes family in Har...

Baldwin's ground-breaking second novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his time David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancée to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giovanni, a handsome Italian barman, the two men are drawn into an intense affair. After three...

'A masterwork... an almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience' Washinton Post When Another Country appeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in...

Pierwsze pełne wydanie słynnego zbioru esejów słynnego pisarza i działacza ruchu na rzecz praw obywatelskich. Klasyka literatury amerykańskiej XX wieku. Gęsta, dojmująca proza, która w wyjątkowy sposób łączy zapis osobistego doświadczenia z refleksjami na temat społeczeństwa, polityki, literatury, kina, religii. Pisząc o ś...

We are in Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. The narrator of Baldwin's novel is Tish nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail accused of rape. Flashbacks from their love affair are woven into the compelling struggle of two families to win ...

Harlem in the 1970s: the black soul of New York City. Tish is nineteen and the man she loves - her lifelong friend and the father of her unborn child - has been jailed for a crime he did not commit. As their families come together to fight for his freedom, will their love be enough? 'Soulful . . . Racial injustice may flat...

'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded' Drawing on Baldwin's own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, these searing essays blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better world. Penguin Modern: fifty new book...