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《 Go Tell It On The Mountain 》作者:James Baldwin 【完結】

Introduction

‘The balloon of experience is tied to the earth;’ wrote Henry James in The American; ‘andunder that necessity we swing; thanks to a rope of remarkable length; in the more or lessmodious car of imagination。’ In 1949 James Baldwin was living in Paris – a measure of ropehaving been unfurled – yet his ties to Harlem grew stronger by the day。 There was little of Hemingway or Gertrude Stein in Baldwin’s sojourn; though he enjoyed a little more freedomthere; and adventure too; he wasn’t there for friendship or freedom or adventure either; but forwriting。 Baldwin came to Europe in search of his own voice。 He came for a clear view of the past。

And this exile suited him; sentences at once beginning to bleed out of memory ands imagination;old wounds opening into new language。

Baldwin’s father was a lay preacher; to his eldest son he was ‘handsome; proud; andingrown’。 The son was born into a religious munity; a world where duty joined with pride;where sin battled with high hopes of redemption; where the Saved sang over the Damned; wherelove and hate could smell similar; and where fathers and sons could be strangers for ever。 ‘I haddeclined to believe;’ Baldwin wrote in his famous Notes of a Native Son; ‘in that apocalypse whichhad been central to my father’s vision。’

… I had not known my father well。 We had got on badly; partly because we shared;in different fashions; the vice of stubborn pride。 When he was dead I realized I had hardlyever spoken to him … He was of the first generation of free men。 He; along with thousandsof