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The Bern Book A Record of a Voyage of the Mind - American Literature Series

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Author: Vincent O. Carter

The Bern Book is a travelogue, a memoir, a "diary of an isolated soul" (Darryl Pinckney), and a meditation on the myth and reality of race in midcentury Europe and America.In 1953, having left the US and settled in Bern, Switzerland, Vincent O. Carter, a struggling writer, set about composing a "record of a voyage of the mind." The voyage begins with Carter's furiously good-humored description of how, every time he leaves the house, he must face the possibility of being asked "the hated question" (namely, Why did you, a black man born in America, come to Bern?). It continues with stories of travel, war, financial struggle, the pleasure of walking, the pain of self-loathing, and, through it all, various experiments in what Carter calls "lacerating subjective sociology." Now this long-neglected volume is back in print for the first time since 1973.
ISBN: 9781628973853
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press
Published date:
DEWEY: 818.5409
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 352
Weight: 499g
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 25mm

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