Description
| Product ID: | 9781628973853 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | American Literature Series |
| Title: | Bern Book |
| Subtitle: | A Record of a Voyage of the Mind |
| Authors: | Author: Vincent O. Carter |
| Page Count: | 352 |
| Subjects: | Memoirs, Memoirs, Ethnic studies, Travel writing, Black & Asian studies, Travel writing, Switzerland |
| Description: | 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Dalkey Archive Press |
| Publisher Name: | Dalkey Archive Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-06-23 |
