- Race relations, African Americans, Psychology, Afro-Americans
Considered an 'audacious' second novel, GIOVANNI'S ROOM is set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence. This now-classic story of a fated love triangle explores, with uncompromising clarity, the conflicts between desire, conventional morality and sexual identity.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Grave, earnest, prestige and intimate.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- James Baldwin
- First published
- September 1993
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Alcazar Productions, Corgi, Delta Trade Paperbacks
- Editions
- 65
- Language
- tur, Portuguese, German, French
- ISBN
- 9785875320040
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 68 have read it and 658 want to.
“I stand at the window of this great house in the south of France as night falls, the night which is leading me to the most terrible morning of my life.”
James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist and civil rights activist. Most of Baldwin's work deals with racial and sexual issues in the mid-20th century in the United States. His novels are notable for the personal way in which they explore questions of identity as well as the way in which they mine complex social and psychological pressures related to being black and homosexual well before the social, cultural or political equality of these groups was improved.[1] Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baldwin_%28writer%29#Bibliography
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
The Bell Jar 194886% alikeBoth earnest, grave, prestige.
The Scarlet Letter 180082% alikeBoth grave, earnest, prestige.
Small Things Like These 202077% alikeBoth grave, earnest, prestige.
Stoner 196577% alikeBoth grave, earnest, prestige.
Heart of Darkness 189976% alikeBoth grave, earnest, prestige.
Wuthering Heights 184675% alikeBoth grave, earnest, prestige.
Both grave, earnest, intimate.
Solaris 196172% alikeBoth grave, earnest, contemplative.
The Nest 202089% alikeFilm · Both grave, earnest, prestige.
The End of the Affair 199987% alikeFilm · Both grave, earnest, prestige.