Giovanni's Room
Language: English Publication details: London Penguin Modern Classics 2001Description: xi, 158pISBN: 9780141186351 (PB)Subject(s): Classic Literature | Male homosexuality | Fiction | GeneralSummary: Giovanni's Room, Baldwin's second novel, deals frankly with homosexuality in a manner daring for its time. It depicts a white American struggling to accept his homoerotic desires. David, the protagonist, like Baldwin himself, feels alienated from his native country and moves to Paris in search of a freer life. In the passage Baldwin reads on this recording, David recalls a childhood sexual encounter with another boy?an encounter that left him deeply upset and ambivalent about his manhood.
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Giovanni's Room, Baldwin's second novel, deals frankly with homosexuality in a manner daring for its time. It depicts a white American struggling to accept his homoerotic desires. David, the protagonist, like Baldwin himself, feels alienated from his native country and moves to Paris in search of a freer life. In the passage Baldwin reads on this recording, David recalls a childhood sexual encounter with another boy?an encounter that left him deeply upset and ambivalent about his manhood.
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