Richard Wright

« L''eau jaillit, gronde, rugit, murmure, berce, bouillonne, suinte et tourbillonne à travers l''œuvre de Richard Wright dont on commémore le centenaire en 2008 le centenaire de la naissance. Là-bas,

Un racconto aggrappato alla realta, "vissuto alla giornata": la lentamaturazione d'un giovane solo e arrabbiato, avido di conoscere, affamato diparole e di libri. Ragazzo negro, quasi un romanzo di formazione, el'autobiografia simbolica di Richard Wright, scrittore negro nativo delMississippi, dapprima sguattero, spazzino, spalatore, poi impiegato alleposte, agente di assicurazioni, disoccupato, infine narratore di breviracconti pagati pochi dollari a cartella. L'esperienza di vivere nelle cose,scoprire le parole come arma di liberazione: il coraggio di progettare lapropria esistenza proiettandola verso il viaggio dell'utopia come scelta d'unafuga che non e piu passiva sconfitta.

Reissued to mark the 80th anniversary of Native Son's publication - discover Richard Wright's brutal and gripping masterpiece this black history month. '[Native Son] possesses an artistry, penetration of thought, and sheer emotional power that places it into the front rank of American fiction' Ralph EllisonReckless, angry and adrift, Bigger Thomas has grown up trapped in a life of poverty in the slums of Chicago. But a job with the affluent Dalton family provides the setting for a catastrophic collision between his world and theirs.Hunted by citizen and police alike, and baited by prejudiced officials, Bigger finds himself the cause celebre in an ever-narrowing endgame. First published in 1940, Native Son shocked readers with its candid depiction of violence and confrontation of racial stereotypes. It went on to make Richard Wright the first bestselling black writer in America.'The most important and celebrated novel of Negro life to have appeared in America' James BaldwinWITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY GARY YOUNGE

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.

"Thy Fearful Symmetry rewards you for your patience with a seamless narrative, energetic writing, an inventive and complex storyline and a stunning climax with one final audacious surprise..." - Lavanya Karthik, Bookpleasures.comThe end of the world started in Glasgow, with a kiss.Two people - two creatures - fated to be eternal enemies downed their blazing spears and loved. To do so, they broke rules hardwired into the DNA of the universe.The universe noticed. The universe broke.Now Heaven and Hell are hunting them. Nobody on Earth can help them. Worst of all, the fabric of reality is unravelling around them, the Apocalypse has been brought forward a millennium, and it might all be their fault.On cold streets, the last tattered remnants of humanity must draw faith in a world that has no more use for them. As the masses pray and crawl on bloody knees, the few must restore the fearful symmetry between good and evil - for the sake of all.Blood will flow. Fire will fall. Days will end.

The fight to survive is all in the mind.There is nothing exceptional about Greg Summers, until the day he returns home to discover that his wife no longer recognises him and is married to a stranger using his name.Perhaps it is an elaborate hoax, yet that wouldnt explain his vivid flashbacks to childhood, or the violent eruptions of blood that accompany them. Nor does it explain the stray memories that seem to belong to an entirely separate man called Richard Jameson.One of these men is a lie, and neither wishes it to be he. On the run from a creature that cannot exist, his comfortable truths shattered, Greg finds his whole knowledge of the world questionable. If he does not know himself, what can he trust himself to know?"A plot as wild as this could have easily spun out of control, but Wright holds the reins tight. His dexterity is dazzling." - Hellnotes

Fred Daniels, un jeune homme noir, se fait arrêter par la police à la fin d’une journée de travail, alors qu’il s’apprêtait à retrouver sa femme sur le point d’accoucher. Un double meurtre a été comm

"Doon the wynds an up the streets,Where revenants sought souls tae eat,The Butcher called for twitching meatAn Burke an Hare did answer."-anon.1827. A year after the Cadaver Riots tore the heart from Edinburgh. Fear still chokes the Old Town, for though the revenants were driven back with shot and steel they yet lurk in the citys shadowed closes. When night falls, they strike.In dissecting rooms anatomists slice twitching flesh as they dream of cures and glory. For the greatest among them, Robert Knox, there is no price that cannot be met in the quest for knowledge. Behind closed doors he trades in walking death, dealing with devils to keep the flesh market supplied...Set amidst the slums of 19th Century Edinburgh and the ivory towers of its academia, The Flesh Market is an almost true story of murder, mad science, obsession, and the restless dead."The setting is absorbing and vivid, the period fascinating and the distant echoes of this factual case are compelling in themselves, but it is the characters who bring this story to life. For a tale so concerned with death, its bursting with human vitality." - J.J. Marsh, Bookmuse (bookmuse.co.uk)

What the soul would forget, the flesh remembers.When hack reporter Dexter Lomax investigates a series of mysterious craters forming across Northeast England, he expects to convert a well-planned hoax into international news for the weak-minded.What he doesnt expect is for suicidal beggars to thrust weirdly compelling video tapes into his hands, to be targeted by two opposing groups with deadly agendas, or to be in the centre of a horror that begins with the discovery of dozens of skinned corpses on the Town Moor and ends in places beyond the reach of his imagination.Drawn on by his lethal curiosity, Dex is forced to journey further than even he had imagined possible, in pursuit of a story he might never dare write"When a tale has the momentum that this one does, you dont want anything pulling you out of the story. If youre a fan of good, old fashioned, creepy Lovecraftian horror (with just a tad of X-Files style sci-fi) you cant go wrong with The Flesh Remembers." The Reader Reviews

Black Boy es la primera parte de la autobiografía de Richard Wright, considerado uno de los mejores memoir del siglo XX. El relato comienza en los años de la segregación racial, cuando Wright tiene tan solo cuatro años y le prende fuego sin querer a la casa en la que vivia con su familia. Despues de crecer en las calles, rodeado de violencia y pasando hambre, seran los libros y su curiosidad por aprender lo que le llevaran a buscar una vida mejor en el norte, alejado del racismo de Misisipi.

At four years of age, Richard Wright set fire to his home in a moment of boredom; at five his father deserted the family; by six Richard was - temporarily - an alcoholic. Moved from home to home, from brick ten ement to orphanage, a grandmother in Jackson, an aunt in Arkansas he h ad had, by the age of twelve, only one year's formal education. It was in saloons, railroad yards and streets that he learned the facts abou t life under white subjection, about fear, hunger and hatred, while hi s mother's long illness taught him about suffering. The same alertness and independence that made him the 'bad boy' of his family and the vi ctim of endless beatings and remonstrance's, lost him numerous jobs. G radually he learned to play Jim Crow in order to survive in a world of white hostility, secretly satisfying his craving for books and knowle dge until the time came when he could follow his dream of justice and opportunity in the north.

The author. The psychic. The vagrant. The hack.An invitation to a crumbling cottage in the lonely wilds. The legend of the witch who haunts it still. A disappearance from a locked room and the rising, ancient power that may be culprit. The hag has waited long for visitors, and guests are encouraged to extend their stay.For whatever remains of their lives.Welcome to Craven Place."Any author that can take their writing across genres and still shine is a winner in my book. More please." - Jessica Nottingham, Hopelessly Devoted Bibliophile

Where souls are made of stories, the desert gods shall feast.After the traumatic events of The Flesh Remembers, all Dexter Lomax and his new charge Kirsteen MacDonald want is time alone to recover. They dont want conspiracies to find them. They dont want ancient gods to sing their names from the deep desert. They definitely dont want to be drawn back to the mysteries of the flesh, and the tales it can tell.Yet a single telephone call from an old friend in deep trouble drags them from hiding and hurls them halfway across the world to Dubai, where old gods have emerged blinking from the sands and found our world to their liking.Strange ceremonies, vast temples, and hideous chimeras await, and not everybody will get out alive...

Recherché pour meurtre et poursuivi par la police, un Noir américain s''est glissé dans un trou d''égout. Réfugié sous la ville, il découvre un monde étrange, humide et mystérieux, un monde aux règle

La España que Richard Wright visitó en 1954 no era el escenario romántico de la canción y la historia, sino un lugar de trágica belleza y peligrosas contradicciones. Como hombre negro en los años cincuenta, castiga a Occidente por su colonialismo e imperialismo, mientras que como intelectual abraza el humanismo secular de la civilizacion occidental. Sus sentimientos encontrados sobre Occidente se adaptan perfectamente a su analisis de España, un pais aliado de Occidente pero tambien alejado de el. El retrato que ofrece en España pagana es una descripcion abrasadora, poderosa, pero escrupulosamente honesta, de una tierra y un pueblo en crisis, atrapado entre las garras estranguladoras de una cruel dictadura y lo que Wright vio como una corriente subterranea de fe primitiva.