Go Tell it on the Mountain

Resumen del libro

Mountain, Baldwin said, is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else. Go Tell It on the Mountain, originally published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery one Saturday in March of 1935 of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a Pentecostal storefront church in Harlem. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle toward self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves.

Biografía del autor

Nació en Nueva York en 1924 y murió en Francia en 1987. Es reconocido como una figura clave del activismo por los derechos civiles en Estados Unidos y uno de los más importantes autores de la literatura del siglo xx. Novelas como i El cuarto de Giovanni /i (Sexto Piso, 2024), i Otro país /i y i El blues de Beale Street, /i en su día obras de culto, hoy son consideradas clásicos.