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whiskeysorrows · 22 days ago

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started on another country by james baldwin (ive decided to do it for my english coursework) and the writing style is so exquisitely philosophical and realist at the same time. there's brief moments where rufus gets caught in his thought spirals and perceptions (almost mrs dalloway style) before we're pulled back to the actual plot. i love this writing style so much

#rufus scott is such a fascinating character to be introduced to first thing #you can tell this is a man who is deeply cynical and a man who is so used to institutional racism #everything he does is in response to it #he's complex #i just started and he seems like such an asshole to vivaldo and leona (specifically the sex scene)#but he's also so vulnerable inside #this odd tug of war between violence and intimacy is so so fascinating to me #rambles #another country #james baldwin #classical literature

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