The Bern Book: A Record of a Voyage of the Mind

From the Preface: "...I was won over to Vincent Carter by his first and very curious work which he called 'The Bern Book'. It is not quite autobiography, not quite a travel book, but it might be called a profession of faith (in himself) or an essay on being an unpublished black writer in Bern (Switzerland) during the early postwar era. In it and through it I grew to know Carter, who tries to explain to us, to the Bernese, and perhaps to himself, what he is doing in that town...."