Proclamem nas montanhas

by James Baldwin, Paulo Henriques Britto, Daniel Farias (Narrator)

Lançado originalmente em 1953, Proclamem nas montanhas é o livro de estreia de um dos escritores mais notáveis do século XX.

Harlem, Nova York, década de 1930. John Grimes acorda no dia do seu aniversário de catorze anos e ninguém ao redor parece se lembrar da data. Apesar do entorno apático e por vezes violento, o protagonista não abandona seu otimismo. É então que ele percebe que a fé pode dar um novo rumo para a sua vida e decide mergulhar em uma profunda jornada espiritual.
Proclamem nas montanhas é um romance de formação com caráter semiautobiográfico. A devoção, na trama, ganha uma dimensão mú se por um lado reflete o desejo de autoconhecimento e de redenção individual, por outro funciona como um mecanismo capaz de organizar a sociedade norte-americana como um todo — seus hábitos, anseios e temores —, sobretudo quando se trata da experiência negra. A culpa e a noção de pecado, assim, se revelam chaves imprescindíveis para compreender os delicados vínculos que unem e distanciam os personagens.
Para a escritora Roxane Gay, que assina o posfácio da presente edição, o livro de estreia de James Baldwin é "um libelo contra a hipocrisia, o recurso de dois pesos e duas medidas, os falsos profetas e aqueles que usam a fé como arma, e não como escudo".

Com tradução de Paulo Henriques Britto e perfil biográfico de Márcio Macedo.

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Published December 15, 2025

About the author

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Works of American writer James Arthur Baldwin, outspoken critic of racism, include Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), a novel, and Notes of a Native Son (1955), a collection of essays.

James Arthur Baldwin authored plays and poems in society.

He came as the eldest of nine children; his stepfather served as a minister. At 14 years of age in 1938, Baldwin preached at the small fireside Pentecostal church in Harlem. From religion in the early 1940s, he transferred his faith to literature with the still evident impassioned cadences of black churches. From 1948, Baldwin made his home primarily in the south of France but often returned to the United States of America to lecture or to teach.

In his Giovanni's Room, a white American expatriate must come to terms with his homosexuality. In 1957, he began spending half of each year in city of New York.

James Baldwin offered a vital literary voice during the era of civil rights activism in the 1950s and 1960s.
He first partially autobiographically accounted his youth. His influential Nobody Knows My Name and The Fire Next Time informed a large white audience. Another Country talks about gay sexual tensions among intellectuals of New York. Segments of the black nationalist community savaged his gay themes. Eldridge Cleaver of the Black Panthers stated the Baldwin displayed an "agonizing, total hatred of blacks." People produced Blues for Mister Charlie , play of Baldwin, in 1964. Huey Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, defended Baldwin.

Going to Meet the Man and Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone provided powerful descriptions. He as an openly gay man increasingly in condemned discrimination against lesbian persons.

From stomach cancer, Baldwin died in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France. People buried his body at the Ferncliff cemetery in Hartsdale near city of New York.