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A review by olchefdan
Another Country by James Baldwin
2.0
Joyless bohemians - why? If you're going to spend every waking minute, drinking, fucking, and going to clubs, shouldn't you at least enjoy some of it? Wouldn't the sense of suffering and injustice cut deeper (for the reader) if there was a sense that there was something to enjoy?
Only Eric and Yves seem capable of getting any pleasure from life. When they appear, it's a relief. And it even seems to be a relief for Baldwin. He enjoys them as well.
Vivaldo, the unhappy struggling writer observing this mess, compares the typing of his unborn novel to moving through the NYC humidity - sticky and plodding. Eric and Yves, in the salty and breezy Mediterranean, give Another Country some light, lightness, and life. Everyone else desperately needs some air.
Only Eric and Yves seem capable of getting any pleasure from life. When they appear, it's a relief. And it even seems to be a relief for Baldwin. He enjoys them as well.
Vivaldo, the unhappy struggling writer observing this mess, compares the typing of his unborn novel to moving through the NYC humidity - sticky and plodding. Eric and Yves, in the salty and breezy Mediterranean, give Another Country some light, lightness, and life. Everyone else desperately needs some air.