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"There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up; holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths and contains the rocker. It's an inside kind - wrapped tight like skin. Then there is a loneliness that roams. No rocking can hold it down. It's alive, on its own. A dry spreading thing that makes the sound of one's own feet going seem to come from a far-off place." ( ) Originally published in 1987. Main setting is in Ohio, also Delaware and Kentucky. --------- I read this book so long ago that I don’t remember too much about, except that it was a dark book, kind of demonic. Beloved comes back to life, emerging from the swamp. The mother missed her so much she didn’t care what she looked or acted like at first. But, Beloved gets to be unbearable to live with and is very, very evil, seducing her mother’s lover into sex with her. It’s all very demonic. I thought I’d want to try and find time to reread it to remember more, but life is just way too short. I do remember really enjoying this story because it was so weird. So, I’m giving it a 4-star. Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon was also a little spiritually dark, but not near as dark as “Beloved”. There is a book of hers that is now on the banned list, called “The Bluest Eyes”. I haven’t read it, but it is one of the newest top 10 books on the American Library Association’s list being demanded to be banned by the book banners because it is considered sexually explicit and depicts child sexual abuse. Puoi trovare questa recensione anche sul mio blog, La siepe di more Amatissima è quel tipo di romanzo immenso che, dopo averlo letto, vorresti leggesse chiunque, ma non hai idea di come scriverne perché almeno qualcunǝ si incuriosisca abbastanza da fare un tentativo. Mamma mia, Morrison, cosa non mi hai fatto provare durante questa lettura! E dire che per gran parte della prima metà non mi aveva preso per niente: non riuscivo bene a capire dove volesse portarmi Morrison, complici quel tocco di realismo magico che sconcertava la mia ragione e una storia della quale faticavo a mettere insieme i pezzi. Poi a un certo punto qualcosa ha scattato, gli elementi della storia si sono messi in fila e ho capito di star leggendo un capolavoro. Vi diranno che Amatissima è un romanzo sulla schiavitù dei neri negli USA – ed è vero – ma quello è solo il primo filo, che poi si intreccerà con altri fili per dare vita a un tessuto simile al raso, così uniforme che è difficile individuare il punto di partenza. Come si fa a dire di aver raggiunto la libertà? Che cos’è la libertà? Basta non avere più padroni e padrone, oppure è una questione più complessa, fatta di tanti ambiti nei quali liberarsi? Ho amato il modo in cui Morrison ha raccontato la maternità, inevitabilmente intrecciata con lo schiavismo e il patriarcato, che ne pervertono l’amore con le loro logiche gerarchiche e il loro assoluto disprezzo per la libertà altrui. Non si attraversa indenni una società dove a chi è in fondo alla scala gerarchica può essere fatta qualsiasi cosa – e Morrison non è parca di esempi. Nemmeno essere le vittime garantisce di aver imparato la lezione. E in questo romanzo di donne, non manca lo sguardo sulla mascolinità, annientata nella condizione di schiavo, dove qualunque pretesa di forza e superiorità sugli altri generi viene meno e ancora persa nel tentativo di ritrovarsi e ricostruirsi secondo logiche diverse. It was not a story to pass on: non è una storia da tramandare e non è una storia da ignorare. È particolarmente consigliata alle persone razzializzate e a chi ama la letteratura di confine, non tanto geografico, ma etico e interiore. After re-reading three times the first two pages, because I simply couldn't understand them, and after painfully arriving at page ten, I decided to let go and try something more mean to be read. Powerful and brutally real. Toni Morrison tells the truth about slavery and new emancipation in a heart wrenching story that we all should read. The language and dialogue helps the story but her amazing prose lifts this story into another realm of sweetness, light, sorrow, bravery and a healthy dose of mystism.
"Beloved" is Toni Morrison's fifth novel, and another triumph. Indeed, Ms. Morrison's versatility and technical and emotional range appear to know no bounds. If there were any doubts about her stature as a pre-eminent American novelist, of her own or any other generation, ''Beloved'' will put them to rest. As a record of white brutality mitigated by rare acts of decency and compassion, and as a testament to the courageous lives of a tormented people, this novel is a milestone in the chronicling of the black experience in America. It is Morrison writing at the height of her considerable powers, and it should not be missed. Morrison traces the shifting shapes of suffering and mythic accommodations, through the shell of psychosis to the core of a victim's dark violence, with a lyrical insistence and a clear sense of the time when a beleaguered peoples' "only grace...was the grace they could imagine." Belongs to Publisher SeriesKeltainen kirjasto (219) — 6 more Is contained inHas the adaptationIs abridged inHas as a studyHas as a commentary on the textHas as a student's study guide
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement. After the Civil War ends, Sethe longingly recalls the two-year-old daughter whom she killed when threatened with recapture after escaping from slavery 18 years before. No library descriptions found. |
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