Giovannis Zimmer.

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James Baldwin: Giovannis Zimmer. (Paperback, German language, 1996, Rowohlt Tb.)

Paperback, 138 pages

German language

Published March 1, 1996 by Rowohlt Tb..

ISBN:
978-3-499-10999-7
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5 stars (3 reviews)

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.

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Heart-rending and unsparing

5 stars

A portrait of 1950s Paris, American culture and the margins of bourgeois society, of internalised homophobia and gay desire, of power and cruelty. And the psychogram of a privileged, pathologically passive and deeply disagreeable man, including two grotesquely dehumanising transphobic passages. All rendered in dense, vivid language and impeccable structure and style.