Native Son

Resumen del libro

This is Richard Wright's stark and vehement novel about a young black man who is hardened by life in the slums and whose every effort to fre e himself proves hopeless. Unwittingly involved in a wealthy woman's d eath, he is hunted relentlessly, baited by prejudiced officials, charg ed with murder and driven to acknowledge a strange pride in his crime. He realises his full individuality only through the confrontation of death. NATIVE SON is among the first American works of fiction to port ray an existential hero in the process of self-transcendence, and is o ne of the last novels of the politically conscious, post-depression years.

Biografía del autor

Richard Wright (1908-1960) nació en Misisipi, donde conoció desde pequeño la violencia de la segregación racial. Su debut, "Hijo de esta tierra", en 1940, nace del deseo de retratar con honestidad la única forma de vida que su país natal le había permitido conocer íntimamente, es decir, la vida de los guetos negros estadounidenses, y encuentra un inesperado éxito, convirtiéndole en el primer gran novelista afroamericano.