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The Bern Book is a travelogue, a memoir, a "diary of an isolated
soul" (Darryl Pinckney), and a meditation on the myth and reality
of race in midcentury Europe and America. In 1953, having left the
US and settled in Bern, Switzerland, Vincent O. Carter, a
struggling writer, set about composing a "record of a voyage of the
mind." The voyage begins with Carter's furiously good-humored
description of how, every time he leaves the house, he must face
the possibility of being asked "the hated question" (namely, Why
did you, a black man born in America, come to Bern?). It continues
with stories of travel, war, financial struggle, the pleasure of
walking, the pain of self-loathing, and, through it all, various
experiments in what Carter calls "lacerating subjective sociology."
Now this long-neglected volume is back in print for the first time
since 1973.
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