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A review by girardian
Another Country by James Baldwin
5.0
- "Only, the polite ones didn't say dirty. They said real."
- Baldwin's character linger on odor, smell, other base, body expulsions that grimly attract and repulse
- At first I thought there were incongruent acts of horror (domestic abuse, rape) interspersed between the central personal dramas but then thematically they were congruent - the result of a lack of love, an inability to love, the difficulty of love. Baldwin has spoken of this elsewhere in more depth, in particular about race
- Baldwin has also spoken many times about illusions people create that don't allow them to love in truth, this challenge to meet the demands of social reality underpinned each character's journey
- Baldwin's character linger on odor, smell, other base, body expulsions that grimly attract and repulse
- At first I thought there were incongruent acts of horror (domestic abuse, rape) interspersed between the central personal dramas but then thematically they were congruent - the result of a lack of love, an inability to love, the difficulty of love. Baldwin has spoken of this elsewhere in more depth, in particular about race
- Baldwin has also spoken many times about illusions people create that don't allow them to love in truth, this challenge to meet the demands of social reality underpinned each character's journey