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The Bern Book is a travelogue, a memoir, a "diary of an isolated soul" (Darryl Pinckney), and a meditation on the myth and reality of race in midcentury Europe and America.
In 1953, having left the US and settled in Bern, Switzerland, Vincent O. Carter, a struggling writer, set about composing a "record of a voyage of the mind." The voyage begins with Carter's furiously good-humored description of how, every time he leaves the house, he must face the possibility of being asked "the hated question" (namely, Why did you, a black man born in America, come to Bern?). It continues with stories of travel, war, financial struggle, the pleasure of walking, the pain of self-loathing, and, through it all, various experiments in what Carter calls "lacerating subjective sociology." Now this long-neglected volume is back in print for the first time since 1973.
The Bern Book is a travelogue, a memoir, a "diary of an isolated soul" (Darryl Pinckney), and a meditation on the myth and reality of race in midcentury Europe and America.
In 1953, having left the US and settled in Bern, Switzerland, Vincent O. Carter, a struggling writer, set about composing a "record of a voyage of the mind." The voyage begins with Carter's furiously good-humored description of how, every time he leaves the house, he must face the possibility of being asked "the hated question" (namely, Why did you, a black man born in America, come to Bern?). It continues with stories of travel, war, financial struggle, the pleasure of walking, the pain of self-loathing, and, through it all, various experiments in what Carter calls "lacerating subjective sociology." Now this long-neglected volume is back in print for the first time since 1973.
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
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Genre: | Biographien, Importe |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
ISBN-13: | 9781628973853 |
ISBN-10: | 1628973854 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Carter, Vincent O |
Hersteller: | Deep Vellum Publishing |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de |
Maße: | 214 x 139 x 24 mm |
Von/Mit: | Vincent O Carter |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 10.05.2022 |
Gewicht: | 0,49 kg |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
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Genre: | Biographien, Importe |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
ISBN-13: | 9781628973853 |
ISBN-10: | 1628973854 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Carter, Vincent O |
Hersteller: | Deep Vellum Publishing |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de |
Maße: | 214 x 139 x 24 mm |
Von/Mit: | Vincent O Carter |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 10.05.2022 |
Gewicht: | 0,49 kg |