Bern Book: A Record of a Voyage of the Mind

Vincent O. Carter

Bern Book: A Record of a Voyage of the Mind
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Country
United States
Published
23 June 2022
Pages
352
ISBN
9781628973853

Bern Book: A Record of a Voyage of the Mind

Vincent O. Carter

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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