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Giovanni's Room
by James Baldwin
emotional
reflective
sad
"Love him," said Jacques, with vehemence, "love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters? And how long, at best, can it last? since you are both men and still have everywhere to go? Only five minutes, I assure you, only five minutes, and most of that, helas! in the dark."
A restless American expat in Paris cannot bring himself to love a man outside the confines of their single rented room. The dynamics between characters are deeply tragic, and so human, David especially for his instinct to take flight from confrontation.
A story wherein shame drives queerness into shadows, chases after it while the men affected hurt one another and the women in their lives, resent one another, cling to and renounce one another. Baldwin keeps warning what's to come, injecting everything with a visceral dread, yet the plot falling into place was still striking.
A restless American expat in Paris cannot bring himself to love a man outside the confines of their single rented room. The dynamics between characters are deeply tragic, and so human, David especially for his instinct to take flight from confrontation.
A story wherein shame drives queerness into shadows, chases after it while the men affected hurt one another and the women in their lives, resent one another, cling to and renounce one another. Baldwin keeps warning what's to come, injecting everything with a visceral dread, yet the plot falling into place was still striking.