Title: Unintelligent and overated.
Review: Baldwin's prose is average; and, at the time, the issues dealt with here weren't at all banal, but Baldwin tackles them far to brashly. He offers a panoply of problems, but rarely offers a solution that's tantamount to his psuedo-genius. The protagonist simply goes into fits of self-loathing and predictable "White man oppresive, Black oppressed, so let's sink down to their level." But I just can't get over the prose. It's not terrible, just unecessarily overated. I guess it was pretty iconoclastic for it's time.
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