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unfortunately read this at a time when it must have been incomprehensible, Dewed with youth, affecting an angst and still noshing fast food while often remaining awake forhours at a clip, I only recall two episodes: the queue for the train and the encounter molestation and the final slugfest of the ideologues, Perhaps my latest trek will lead me back to this door, Richard Wright's 'The Outsider' is a phenomenal novel that draws the reader to the dark side of the life of the main character Cross Damon, This extraordinary character introduces the reader to a man who lives outside the norms, expectations, rules, and laws of society, He embraces no ideological, societal or governmental theories, and he claims no religious prinicipals, Wright allows the reader to imagine the life of an individual who has little emotional regard for his family, who constantly succombs to his desire for women, and whose destructive ideologies decide the fate of his life.
This intriguing page turning novel will appeal to the reader from beginning to end, I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys classic AfricanAmerican literature, Pikku jumalat, joka ilmestyi, on kertomus Cross Damonista, Chicagon postitoimiston nuoresta mustasta virkailijasta ja hänen traagisesta kohtalostaan,
Se on kertomus pelosta ja rakkaudesta, epätoivosta ja lankeemuksesta, ihmisestä josta olosuhteiden pakosta tulee elämän "outsider", ikuinen ulkopuolinen,

Sankarini olisi voinut olla mitä rotua tahansa, on tekijä sanonut, Pikku jumalissa olen koettanut kuvata käsitystäni elämästämme sellaisena kuin sen näen ja tunnen,

Richard Wrighton kuuluisa yhdysvaltalainen kirjailija, joka monilla mustien asemaa kuvailevilla romaaneillaan on saavuttanut jo klassikon maineen, It is hard to look at the books of Richard Wright without considering the racial tension surrounding the time of publication and setting, But objectively, without bothering about the author's background, his books are masterpieces, They are bold, daring, tragic, powerful, intricate, deep and profound, Ascribe any adjective you like, but there is no substitution for immersing yourself in The Outsider or Native Son, Don't forget his short stories either, I put Richard Wright on the level of Dostoyevsky, So why isn't he read in high school English classes Why isn't he anthologized as often as James Baldwin or even paltry Kurt Vonnegut Sure, his themes and method are controversial.
The things his characters say might send a shiver down your spine every once in a while, But I guarantee you will never forget this book, Don't be intimidated by its size, It is nothing like Henry James or even Dreiser, Wright writes simply, without tiptoeing around, If you can read a newspaper, you can read this book, But that doesn't stop him from ploughing headlong into immense abysses of existentialism, If you don't believe me, read his incredible short story called "Big Black Good Man, " This was my first introduction to Wright, and I still think it's a great taste of what he can do, Like Native Son, Wright explores the psychology of racism and economic oppression through the eyes of a lumpen Black character this time a working class intellectual who becomes an anticommunist serial killer after reading Nietzsche, Heidegger, Kierkegaard etc yes, really and after suffering a series of hardships in his personal life.


The protagonist's criminality is also a manifestation of his struggle to affirm a traditional masculinity in the context of racism and poverty an issue implied, but not directly addressed by Wright.
Wright condemns Cross' selfishness, although he never highlights the specifically masculine/misogynist nature of his desire,

The book is messy and extreme: equal parts razorsharp existential noir fast paced and brutal enough to rival anything in American literature thepages are an absolute tour de force but the book is also didactic and essayistic to the point of silliness.


Wright clearly wrote this book in the throes of deep ideological and personal despair, As a document of a radical writer agonizing over the failures of his communist commitments in the midst of the Cold War, this book is an extraordinary read,

In my opinion, The Outsider is a sharper and stronger novel than Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, both published the same year or thereabouts, Unlike Ellison, Wright's disillusionment with communism does not have a happy ending, There is no tackedon, pat resolution, No sanctimonious denial of radical political engagement, Wright's underground man does not emerge from his agony, and definitely not to embrace the putrid nonsense of American individualism, For Wright, like Sartre, the earlys offered no easy answers, The dilemma posed by the global situation of US imperialism vs an increasingly counterrevolutionary Soviet Union was seen as a political impasse of world historic proportions, This book expertly captures the claustrophobic terror of this historical moment as it was experienced by many leftist/communist intellectuals,.Once again Richard Wright has blown my mind, The Outsider is the third novel I've read of his and like Native Son and Black Boy, it has catapulted me into a terrifying, uncomfortable world.
Twentysix year old Damon Cross is trapped in Chicago and escapes to a double life in Harlem, twisting his existentialist beliefs into justification for murder, He is an outsider in the white world, the black community, within his own family and in the communist party,

This novel is a portrait of an alienated young man grappling with the meaning of life, a searing indictment of racism, a critique of the exploitive communist party of thes and a suspenseful thriller.
There are pages in the last quarter of the book that are dominated by monologues of characters exchanging their beliefs i, e. existentialism vs. communism. I zoned out during these, Otherwise I was on the edge of my seat, This was gripping in so many ways, It was puzzling and eye opening and dark and serious, This book haunted me when I put it down, I found myself thinking about the main character and his take on things, I found myself trying to imitate his stoicism and the way he could be so emotionally detached was remarkable, This was brilliant and the way the story intertwined and and weaved its way around issues and ideals was astonishing, Libero da tutti, fuorché da te stesso

Spiazzante eppure avvincente, Incredibile eppure notevole. Sconvolgente eppure monopolizzante. Drammatico eppure ha letteralmente catturato la mia attenzione, dall'inizio alla fine,
Difficile per me esprimere ora un giudizio articolato e oggettivo di questo romanzo, E' tutto: è un giallo è un romanzo psicologico, filosofico, sociale è immaginario, quasi distopico, e in parte autobiografico è perfino romantico e anche un saggio, La scrittura è semplice ed essenziale, Mai sopra le righe.
Non affondo nella trama e nei significati del romanzo, Si può solo leggere per farsene un'idea,
Ho conosciuto Richard Wright con l'altro suo romanzo sitelinkRagazzo negro, Ringrazio NoodLesse che mi ha consigliato di leggere anche questo,

P. S. Manca la quinta stellina perché in un paio di passaggi ci sono, secondo me, delle incongruenze, The story is like a resetting of Crime and Punishment, There's the main character, a young man who cuts off relations with his family, acts out of his own idealism and disenchantment with the world, commits murder more than once, tries to help the people he thinks are worth helping, then there's the sympathetic detective who has him figured out.


But it's different,

Richard Wright builds the story around diferent philosophies like Nietzsche and Heidegger, but he sets those philosophies up for failure, He has different views on society, power, socioeconomic relationships, idealism and philosophy, but it's only in his negation of those other ideas

that you come close to what he really believes.
This is all wrapped up in the story and characters, really well done so it doesn't come off preachy,

At first I didn't like it because I took the main character rather literally, but then it became more apparent that this is a hypothetical character out of something from Nietzsche.
With that, the reader can come up with his/her own conclusions about what the author believes and thinks,

It's a good novel, I recommend it. Cross Damon, postier noir, père de famille, risque gros apres avoir séduit une jeune fille de seize ans, Lopportunité déchapper à ses ennuis et de recommencer une nouvelle vie s'offre à lui quand il passe pour mort dans un accident de métro, Reconnu par un ancien collègue, il le tue et fuit Chicago pour NewYork sous une nouvelle identité, Il y rencontre un groupe communiste auquel il sintègre, mais est contraint de tuer à deux reprises encore, Un procureur s'attachera à cerner la personnalité complexe de Damon dans un face à face final étourdissant, Publié enet souvent considéré comme un des premiers romans existentialistes américains Richard Wright s'etait lié à Sartre à Paris, le Transfuge met en scène un personnage avide de liberté audelà de toute morale, mais malmené par des circonstances dont il n'est que le jouet.
Un être soucieux de sérénité mais qui se transforme en instrument de terreur, Un penseur sans idées, qui ne trouve nul écho à ses questions dans une société qui le broie : "Ne diraton pas que tout l'effort de l'homme sur la terre pour construire une civilisation est seulement l'effort désespéré que fait l'homme pour se dissimuler à luimême.
. . La vie humaine n'estelle pas qu'une sorte de peur glacée qu'a l'homme de ce qu'il lui serait possible dêtre " Le procureur qui l'interroge, tout de lucidité et d'empathie, n'est pas loin de partager la détresse existentielle de son suspect : "Toute ma vie j'ai été hanté par le sentiment que cette vie que nous vivons était feinte, et j'en ai été d'autant plus meurtri qu'elle EST une feinte.
Et malheur à celui qui essaie de révéler cette feinte ! C'est lui le criminel, . . " Damon finira par confesser ses crimes mais aura ces ultimes paroles: ", . . je suis innocent C'est cela qui a été l'horreur",