by Langston Hughes · Seghers · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782232145209
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«The Big Sea: Une autobiographie» is the autobiography of Langston Hughes, published by Seghers in paperback (444 pages, in French).
In this autobiography, Langston Hughes recounts his youth and the awakening of his vocation as a writer. He evokes the twenties, Harlem jazz, the Harlem Renaissance, the cabarets of Montmartre and the situation of Black artists and intellectuals in the United States, with a vital style that reflects his relationship with blues and jazz.
The original was written in 1940; the French translation was published by Seghers in 1947, and this 2021 edition includes a revised version.
For readers of memoirs, African American literature and twentieth-century cultural history.
