If this were not so I would not be alone in this house tonight. People are too various to be treated so lightly. David reflects on the fateful events that led him there, alone in this house, full of regrets and self-loathing. We understand that he’ll be leaving soon, that his former girlfriend is already on her way back to America and that Giovanni will be executed the next morning. (Like Saint-Paul-de-Vence, where Baldwin used to live). When the book opens, David, a twenty-eight, tall and blond American is in alone in a house in a village in the South of France. Life in that room seemed to be occurring underwater, as I say, and it is certain that I underwent a sea-change there. I did not really stay there very long-we met before the spring began and I left there during the summer-but it still seems to me that I spent a lifetime there. It became, in a way, every room I had ever been in and every room I find myself in hereafter will remind me of Giovanni’s room. I scarcely know how to describe that room. Examining the mystery of love and passion in an intensely imagined narrative, Baldwin creates a moving and complex story of death and desire that is revelatory in its insight.Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin (1956) French title: La chambre de Giovanni. After meeting and proposing to a young woman, he falls into a lengthy affair with an Italian bartender and is confounded and tortured by his sexual identity as he oscillates between the two. In a 1950s Paris swarming with expatriates and characterized by dangerous liaisons and hidden violence, an American finds himself unable to repress his impulses, despite his determination to live the conventional life he envisions for himself. Baldwin’s haunting and controversial second novel is his most sustained treatment of sexuality, and a classic of gay literature.
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