That said and, perhaps even underlining that point further, the prose throughout this book was perfect. So interesting and it now has completely changed the way I’m looking back on certain pieces of the story. I don’t think it was ever explicitly said that they were white, but I did some Googling and Baldwin said that he didn’t want to tackle sexuality and race in the same story in this case. I genuinely thought the entire time that David was a Black man and Hella was a Black woman from the very beginning, which I now realize was never confirmed. Something that I just now learned, after I was completely finished reading this book is that neither David nor Hella were POC.
It’s truly a beautiful and tragic story from start to finish. He even captures Giovanni and his frustration and desperation to have David stay with him, permanently.
He captures his constant denial and inability to accept the challenge that lies in front of him, embodied by Giovanni. Baldwin captures his own freedom in the much more openminded city of Paris alongside how trapped he constantly feels by his own feelings and the reality of his life in America. To say I was transported into the life of David, into 1950s Paris, and into Giovanni’s room is an understatement. This is my first James Baldwin and, while I’m not surprised by this, I was completely floored by his writing. Urn:oclc:809707105 Scandate 20100730120716 Scanner in Paris in the 1950s, a young American is living two lives: one through letters with his girlfriend, Hella while she’s away in Spain and the other exploring what a life could be like spent in love with a young bartender, Giovanni. OL15826410W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 95.18 Pages 232 Ppi 643 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0803728794 Urn:lcp:giovannisroom00bald:epub:3a7a7b77-4977-48eb-b2a3-917cad44c5d1 Extramarc Columbia University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier giovannisroom00bald Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t8qc0rt7j Illustrations IA101209 Isbn 0440328810ĩ780440328810 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition
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