Biography Richard Wright

Richard Nathaniel Wright English. Richard Nathaniel Wright. The American prose writer and poet, who worked in the style of Hike, is one of the most significant African American writers. My calling was a human heart. But only being in the field of politics, I could penetrate into the depths of the human heart. "The more frantically you rush to power, the louder you sing the church hymns." I was surrounded by squalor, poverty, and in order not to suffocate in a deaf, hungry longing, I endowed my inner world with unlimited possibilities.

"The world in which I lived was not subject to me, but I could do everything that I lived in me. I was surrounded by squalor, poverty, and in order not to suffocate in a deaf, hungry longing, I endowed my inner world with the inner world. Relatives on Livelib, once Richard Wright wrote about himself: "There is nothing more hostile to the writer's work or the desire to express himself with his help, the environment in which I grew up." And he became a glorified writer-Negro, acquiring world fame.

The living conditions that formed incomparable with those that fell to the lot of his famous literary colleagues - L. Hughes, R. Ellison, W. Dubois, J. Baldwin, only emphasize the power of his natural mind and talent.

It was a complex, major artist of the word. He went a difficult, contradictory, fulfilled contrasts, ups and recessions. The story of his perception of criticism is also noted by the same alternation of light and shadow. Richard Wright was born and spent his childhood in the state of Mississippi, a nest of racism. This circumstance became not only the fact of his biography, but also significantly reflected in his writing development.

The painful impressions of the needs and humiliation, which were deposited in his autobiographical story “Black”, forever crashed into memory, threw a shadow on all his work, colored by tragedy and pain. And although he lived in most of his life outside the south, some critics consider him a “southern” writer who has gravitated to a specifically “southern” style, to the paints condensed, almost grotesque.

Then the decisive circumstance of his biography was the move to the north, to Chicago! There he meets with the Communists, enters the party, begins the work of a party publicist. Of course, the atmosphere of the Thunder thunder itself awakened his creative impulses. His numerous verses, articles and reports of those years scattered in the left periodicals have not yet been fully studied.

Success came to him with a collection of short stories “Children of Uncle Tom”: it was then that the heroic theme was widely included in Wright’s work. When the novel “Son of America” saw the light in the year, he impressed the shock: the book became a bestseller, moreover, a sensation of a national scale. Not a single writer-neiger knew such success, even criticisms of a conservative sense could but admit it.

The book was translated into many languages, it was published in "International Literature". Soviet critics, paying tribute to the talent and courage of Wright, wrote about him as the hope of progressive American literature. Readers were struck not only by the vivid drama of the work, this "American tragedy" in its Negro version. Nova, the interpretation of the protagonist itself was unexpected, meaning a break with common sentimental stereotypes: Wright decided to put a “bad Negro”, a criminal, a victim and at the same time the product of a black ghetto.

It was necessary a considerable courage to tell with such discouraging directness about the bitter price that had to pay for racial oppression. Today it is clear that the writer's exit from the Communist Party of the year was a tragic mistake for him. The individualism of Wright and the painfully heightened national feeling affected here. However, it cannot be forgotten that this step was taken at the very time when in the US communist movement, the opportunistic concept subsequently overcome and exposed the “class world”, brownism, which led to the dulling of the struggle against racial discrimination, prevailed.

But, leaving the former comrades, Wright was alone. The spiritual crisis was aggravated by a sad “discovery”: even glory, recognition, talent are not a protection from racism in America, they do not remove a “second -grade” person from him. In the year, he leaves the United States to never return there. For the past thirteen years he has been spent in Paris, but the gap with his native soil could not but affect his work.

Just as the Russians say that they all came out of Gogol's Overcoat, we can indicate that most of our writers flew out from under the wing of Wright. ” Boris Gilenson.