Baldwin, James

Baldwin grew up in a family of a stepfather, a priest and was the oldest of nine children. Baldwin never knew his own father and partially suffered from this, which was reflected in some of his works (“Tell me when the train left”, “Go broadcast from the mountain”, “ Giovanni ’s room ” and others). In his youth, Baldwin is going to follow in the footsteps of his stepfather and helps him in the church. But the older the future writer becomes, the more clearly he realizes that his stepfather’s sermons diverge from what is happening on the streets of Harlem, and, most importantly, with the behavior of his stepfather at home. After leaving school in the Bronx, Baldwin moved to Greenwich Village , where his literary career began.

After spending childhood and youth in Harlem and Greenwich Village - in one of the most disadvantaged areas of New York - Baldwin begins to write about his views and understanding of what is happening around. His first journalistic articles are imbued with a spirit of denial of racism reigning around a young man.

That is why, having received an award for his first fiction novel “Go Broadcast from the Mountain”, in 1948 Baldwin left the USA and went to the Old World , to Paris .

Being dark-skinned and gay in America of the 40s of the XX century , being in a double vice, having arrived in France , Baldwin here as if takes a breath of fresh air. His main works are written precisely on the banks of the Seine , and it is here that Baldwin spends most of his life. He only returned home two times and was an active participant in the Martin Luther King movement - the only movement whose ideology he shared almost completely. But Europe remained the home of the writer, which he, returning the second time from the States, did not leave until the end of his life.

• 1953 - Go broadcast from the mountain , semi-autobiographical novel (Eng. )
• 1954 - The Amen Corner , play
• 1955 - , novel / essay (English Notes of a native son)
• 1956 - Giovanni's Room
• 1962 - Another country , a novel
• 1963 - Next time - fire , collection of articles
• 1964 - Blues for Mr. Charlie , a play
• 1965 - Going to Meet the Man , a storybook
• 1968 - Tell me when the train left , romance
• 1974 - If Beale Street Could Talk
• 1976 - The Devil finds work , Essay Collection
• 1979 - Just above my head , novel
• 1983 - Jimmy's blues , a collection of poems
• 1985 - The Evidence of Things Not seen , Essay Collection
• 1985 - The Prince of the Ticket , Essay Collection

Without translation, the names of works that are not translated into Russian are presented.

• “ I Am Not a Negro ” - a documentary by Raul Peck based on the unfinished manuscript of James Baldwin “Remember This House”

• Brief Encyclopedia of Literature. T. 9.M., 1978. P.137.
• Stulov Yu. V. French experience of James Baldwin. In the book: French literature in the context of world culture. A collective monograph dedicated to the anniversary of the Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Professor, Doctor of Philology, Zoya Ivanovna Kernose Nizhny Novgorod, 2012.S. 169-176.
• Udler I.M.Folk tradition of black Americans and essays by James Baldwin // Bulletin of the Chelyabinsk State University. 1994.Vol. 2. No. 1. P. 50-55.
• Ustyakina O. N. The problem of personality in D. Baldwin’s novel “If Bill Street Could Talk.” In: Problems of Realism in Foreign Literature of the 19th — 20th Centuries. Intercollegiate. Sat scientific works. 3. M., 1983. - p. 77-83.
• Bolshakov V. Blues of James Baldwin. In: Baldwin J. Get Out of the Desert. M .: Young Guard, 1974. - p. 5-22.
• Epstein J. James Baldwin. Everyone knows his name. In Journal: America. Washington, 1966, No. 113. p.2-5.

• Baldwin, James // Encyclopedia " Around the World ."
• Baldwin, James in the library of Maxim Moshkov