![]() ![]() Thus, the literal facts of Baldwin's boyhood … pale in significance beside the “secrets” of his literary life embedded in the text of Go Tell It on the Mountain.Ī writer writes a novel at a particular time in a specific place and at a certain moment in her or his career. ![]() The point of view from which one scrutinizes the facts of a writer's life as a writer is also crucial. But this direct referential approach, in which the “facts” of John Grimes's life are correctly perceived as mirroring Baldwin's, amounts to only a useful interpretive beginning, not a critical end. One could persuasively read passages as fictional counterparts of Baldwin's comments in Notes of a Native Son, in The Devil Finds Work, and in other autobiographical essays. ![]()
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