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Bern Book

- A Record of a Voyage of the Mind

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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.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781628973853
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 352
  • Udgivet:
  • 23. juni 2022
  • Størrelse:
  • 216x139x25 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 488 g.
Leveringstid: 8-11 hverdage
Forventet levering: 16. januar 2025
Forlænget returret til d. 31. januar 2025
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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.

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