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Oh, just stunning. I've finally settled on Baldwin that I can unreservedly adore. "Another Country" annoyed me; "Giovanni's Room" I found frequently b
Oh, just stunning. I've finally settled on Baldwin that I can unreservedly adore. "Another Country" annoyed me; "Giovanni's Room" I found frequently beautiful but ideologically frustrating (and sometimes uneven, stylistically). This, this, this! just incredible front to back. The title essay offers a powerful account of Baldwin's sense of coming to identity; his literary disputes are whipsmart and funny and important; and his essays on Paris among the v best writing I've read on expatriate formations/communities and national identity. I want to read the collection again already.
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O, how I adore Didion. For whatever reason, found myself surprised that I also enjoyed a novel of hers. The prose itself is very "typical Didion," but
O, how I adore Didion. For whatever reason, found myself surprised that I also enjoyed a novel of hers. The prose itself is very "typical Didion," but the narrative itself strikes me as far stranger than her non-fiction. Seems Didion tends toward the penetrative (in the sense of cutting through the b.s., not whatever your dirty mind was going to in that damned gutter!), whereas this novel invested most of its energy in the unknowable. Charlotte Douglas is one of the most bizarre characters I've encountered lately in fiction. I have two main modes of reading her, but neither seems to fit right: nor does the middle ground. Not to mention the narrator (Grace? Jesus, she effaces herself so effectively that I hardly remember there being an individualized narrator at all) tries her damnedest to understand/mystify Charlotte. I'd love to read it more politically--as I was supposed to for my class--but I'll confess that was never my immediate concern. Any rate: great novel. Think a good "American Pastoral." Oops!
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