Richard Wright Knihy

Bigger Thomas měl od samého začátku namířeno do vězení. Mohlo to být za přepadení nebo drobné krádeže; shodou okolností to bylo za vraždu a znásilnění. Syn černého lidu vypráví příběh tohoto mladého černocha, který se ocitl na dně poté, co v krátkém okamžiku paniky zabil mladou bělošku. Wrightův román se odehrává v Chicagu ve 30. letech 20. století a je neúprosnou reflexí chudoby a pocitu beznaděje, které zažívají lidé v centrech měst po celých Spojených státech, a toho, co znamená být černochem v Americe. Spoluupravil a doslov napsal Alois Humplík.

Bigger Thomas měl od samého začátku namířeno do vězení. Mohlo to být za přepadení nebo drobné krádeže; shodou okolností to bylo za vraždu a znásilnění. Syn černého lidu vypráví příběh tohoto mladého černocha, který se ocitl na dně poté, co v krátkém okamžiku paniky zabil mladou bělošku. Wrightův román se odehrává v Chicagu ve 30. letech 20. století a je neúprosnou reflexí chudoby a pocitu beznaděje, které zažívají lidé v centrech měst po celých Spojených státech, a toho, co znamená být černochem v Americe. Spoluupravil a doslov napsal Alois Humplík.

Černý chlapec je autobiografií Richarda Wrighta, ve které analyzuje své zážitky z dětství prožité na jihu Spojených států. Obraz tohoto období 20. let se pohybuje mezi dvěma světy (černošský vs. bělošský), které autor, jakožto velmi citlivé a introvertní dítě, těžce nese a snaží sevypořádat s nenávistí a diskriminací v americké společnosti. Na straně druhé musí také čelit nepochopení ze strany „svých lidí“. Kniha je sondou do Wrightova života, kde můžeme sledovat jeho vztahy s rodiči nebo jeho příbuznými (např. jeho vztah s nemocnou matkou a silně náboženskou tetou, která v mladém Wrightovi vzbudí silná odpor k náboženství). Vzhledem k těžkosti se realizovat v těchto podmínkách volí sever USA jako místo, kde jsou mezilidské vztahy více otevřené a odcestuje do Chicaga. Toto období je zásadní v jeho životě, přes den myje podlahy a po večerech čte Dostojevského nebo Prousta a formuje své představy o bělošské společnosti. Téma rasismus a diskriminace provází Wrighta po celý život a jeho rovněž tématem v jeho knihách. Nelze nezmínit jeho náklonnost ke komunismu, který ale později odmítl. V jeho případě se spíše jednalo o hledání společenství, kde by mohl najít spojence a přátele. Jestli bychom hledali osobnost, která navázala na tzv. Harlemskou renesanci, byl by to nepochybně Richard Wright, jeho díla dále ovlivnily novou generaci spisovatelů a básníků jako byli Amiri Baraka, Ralph Ellison nebo James Baldwin.

Bigger Thomas měl od samého začátku namířeno do vězení. Mohlo to být za přepadení nebo drobné krádeže; shodou okolností to bylo za vraždu a znásilnění. Syn černého lidu vypráví příběh tohoto mladého černocha, který se ocitl na dně poté, co v krátkém okamžiku paniky zabil mladou bělošku. Wrightův román se odehrává v Chicagu ve 30. letech 20. století a je neúprosnou reflexí chudoby a pocitu beznaděje, které zažívají lidé v centrech měst po celých Spojených státech, a toho, co znamená být černochem v Americe. Spoluupravil a doslov napsal Alois Humplík.

Photographs and text describe the conditions of Blacks in American cities and rural areas during the Great Depression

This deluxe boxed set presents Richard Wright's landmark works in their definitive edition, showcasing them as he originally intended. It offers readers a comprehensive and authentic experience of his influential writings, emphasizing their significance in American literature.

Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America.

Photographs and text describe the conditions of Blacks in American cities and rural areas during the Great Depression.

"Wright presents a compelling story of a black man's attempt to escape his past and start anew in Harlem. Cross Damon is a man at odds with society and with himself, a man who hungers for peace but who brings terror and destruction wherever he goes. As Maryemma Graham writes in her Introduction to this edition, with its restored text established by the Library of America, "The Outsider is Richard Wright's second installment in a story of epic proportions, a complex master narrative designed to show American racism in raw and ugly terms ... The stories of Bigger Thomas ... and Cross Damon bear an uncanny resemblance to many contemporary cases of street crime and violence. There is also a prophetic note in Wright's construction of the criminal mind as intelligent, introspective, and transformative." In addition to the Introduction by Maryemma Graham, this edition includes a notes section by Arnold Rampersad."

A master chronicler of the African-American experience, Richard Wright brilliantly expanded his literary horizons with Pagan Spain, originally published in 1957. The Spain he visited in the mid-twentieth century was not the romantic locale of song and story, but a place of tragic beauty and dangerous contradictions. The portrait he offers is a blistering, powerful, yet scrupulously honest depiction of a land and people in turmoil, caught in the strangling dual grip of cruel dictatorship and what Wright saw as an undercurrent of primitive faith. An amalgam of expert travel reportage, dramatic monologue, and arresting sociological critique, Pagan Spain serves as a pointed and still-relevant commentary on the grave human dangers of oppression and governmental corruption.

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Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi amid poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard," hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other by blacks who resented anyone trying to rise above the common lot. Black Boy is Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. It is at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment—a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering.

Discover Richard Wright's brutal and gripping masterpiece. 'The most important and celebrated novel of Negro life to have appeared in America' James Baldwin Gripping and furious, Native Son follows Bigger Thomas, a young black man who is trapped in a life of poverty in the slums of Chicago. Unwittingly involved in a wealthy woman's death, he is hunted relentlessly, baited by prejudiced officials, charged with murder and driven to acknowledge a strange pride in his crime. Native Son shocked readers on its first publication in 1940 and went on to make Richard Wright the first bestselling black writer in America.

"A formidable and lasting contribution to American literature." --Chicago Tribune Richard Wright's powerful collection of novellas set in the American Deep South, now available as a limited Olive Edition from Harper Perennial. Originally published in 1938, Uncle Tom's Children, a collection of novellas, was the first book from Richard Wright, who would go on to win international renown for his powerful and visceral depiction of the Black experience. The author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, most notably the acclaimed novel Native Son and his stunning autobiography, Black Boy, Wright stands today as one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. Each of the powerful and devastating stories in Uncle Tom's Children concerns an aspect of the lives of Black people in the post-slavery era, exploring their resistance to white racism and oppression. The collection also includes a personal essay by Wright titled "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow."

Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright's novel is just as powerful today as when it was written -- in its reflection of poverty and hopelessness, and what it means to be black in America. This abridged edition includes an introduction, "How Bigger Was Born," by the author, as well as an afterword by John Reilly.

Black Boy, an autobiography of the author's boyhood, explores the theory of human behavior determined by environment. Richard Wright's novel is profoundly American by being a distinctly African--American chronicle. What makes the book unique is its tone, which is that of the blues, both lyrical and ironic, and yet purely tragic.

The 'propulsive, haunting' and 'gripping' (Oprah) rediscovered classic that exposes the dark heart of America for an inncocent Black man on the run from the police Fred Daniels, a black man, is picked up randomly by the police after a brutal murder in a Chicago neighbourhood and taken to the local precinct where he is tortured until he confesses to a crime he didn't commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from the precinct and takes up residence in the sewers below the streets of Chicago. This is the simple, horrible premise of Richard Wright's scorching novel, The Man Who Lived Underground, a masterpiece written in the same period as his landmark books Native Son (1940) and Black Boy (1945) that he was unable to publish in his lifetime. Now, for the first time, this incendiary novel about race and violence in America, the work that meant more to Wright than any other ('I have never written anything in my life that stemmed more from sheer inspiration'), is published in full, in the form that he intended.

'All eight men and all eight stories stand as beautifully, pitifully, terribly true... Here are Richard Wright's stories of eight men - black men, living at violent odds with the white world around them.

In a small town in Canada, Clara Callan reluctantly takes leave of her sister, Nora, who is bound for New York. It's a time when the growing threat of fascism in Europe is a constant worry, and people escape from reality through radio and the movies. Meanwhile, the two sisters -- vastly different in personality, yet inextricably linked by a shared past -- try to find their places within the complex web of social expectations for young women in the 1930s.While Nora embarks on a glamorous career as a radio-soap opera star, Clara, a strong and independent-minded woman, struggles to observe the traditional boundaries of a small and tight-knit community without relinquishing her dreams of love, freedom, and adventure. However, things aren't as simple as they appear -- Nora's letters eventually reveal life in the big city is less exotic than it seems, and the tranquil solitude of Clara's life is shattered by a series of unforeseeable events. These twists of fate require all of Clara's courage and strength, and finally put the seemingly unbreakable bond between the sisters to the test.

'Powerful as [Richard Wright] was - is - as a writer, nobody can surpass him in doing certain kinds of writing...

A graduated intermediate reader of biblical Koine Greek with selections from the New Testament, the Septuagint, and noncanonical early Christian writings.This intermediate reader is for students, clergy, and scholars who have completed at least one year of Greek instruction and want to build reading proficiency. Through twenty-nine texts from the New Testament, the Septuagint, and noncanonical early Christian writings, readers will be exposed to a variety of different genres and authors while still being given enough content from each author to become acquainted with that author’s individual style. Notes within each selection gloss low-frequency words and clarify syntactical intricacies, and each new section of texts gradually increases in its level of difficulty, so that lessons can be worked through sequentially or as stand-alone exercises, as needed.Wright’s selections are all texts that Christians in the fourth century CE would have read, with intertextual connections between them that will stimulate discussion and reflection on the development of important ideas in the early church. Thus, this useful resource encourages progress both in Koine reading proficiency and in knowledge of Christian tradition.

Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America.

Erstmals in ungekürzter Form: Der wiederentdeckte Roman von einem der bedeutendsten afroamerikanischen Autoren der USA. Es scheint ein Samstagabend wie jeder andere zu sein: Der schwarze Arbeiter Fred Daniels ist auf dem Weg nach Hause zu seiner hochschwangeren Frau, den Wochenlohn in der Hosentasche. Völlig unvermittelt halten ihn drei Polizisten an und verhaften ihn. Fred geht anfänglich noch von einem Missverständnis aus, aber als man ihn des Doppelmordes beschuldigt, ahnt er, in was für einen Albtraum er geraten ist. Schläge, Kreuzverhör, psychische Manipulation entfremden ihn von der Welt und der Realität: Er unterschreibt ein Geständnis, das ihm in einem schwachen Moment und unter falschen Versprechungen vorgelegt wird. So bleibt ihm nur die Flucht in den Untergrund – in das dunkle, nasse Labyrinth der Kanalisation.

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Während der letzten achtzehn Monate seines Lebens, im Angesicht des drohenden Todes und zutiefst erschüttert über den kürzlichen Verlust seiner Mutter Ella stieß Richard Wright, einer der bedeutendsten afroamerikanischen Schriftsteller des 20. Jahrhunderts, im europäischen Exil durch Zufall auf die Form des Haiku. Waren es zuvor vorrangig Romane, in denen er Momente Schwarzen Lebens kraftvoll in Szene setzte, begann er nun wie besessen, im Bett, in Cafés, in Restaurants, in Paris und auf dem französischen Land jene aus drei Wortgruppen von fünf, sieben und fünf Silben bestehende japanische Gedichtform zu füllen – nicht nur mit der Darstellung menschlicher Beziehungen oder seiner eigenen Krankheit, auch die Welt der Natur in all ihrer Vielfalt fing er in mehr als 4000 Haikus ein. Von der Unmittelbarkeit des Augenblicks durchdrungen, dabei stets vor der Folie der Erfahrungen als Afroamerikaner in einem von Rassismus geprägten Land, spann er Gedichte des Lichts aus der zunehmenden Dunkelheit – und schuf mit den 817 hier erstmals ins Deutsche übertragenen Gedichten ein so schillerndes wie zärtliches Bild des Lebens in all seinen Wirrungen und Wundern.