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This is clearly a moving and important story, and one I cannot help but feel poorly for rating as I have. Simply, at the time I read this for a class in high school, I was not sufficiently motivated or interested to appreciate the nuance and tragedy of Beloved. I still don’t know what to think of those three chapters. You know the ones. 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. Difficult read about a former slave who murders her child to prevent the child from being exploited and abused by white men in the aftermath of the Civil War. Morrison jumps around perspectives and is at times indirect about chronology and cocntext but the writing is very evocative. 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 by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison Read - ok attempted - as part of a challenge, and have to admit I've finally declared it a loss. Set in the years after slavery, this is the story of Sethe, a black woman set free, but who is still haunted by the loss of her family and friends. She is not free in the real sense because she killed her children and one of these lost souls - her daughter Beloved - has seemingly come back to life to stay with her in the house 124. There is a mix of timelines that weave in and out, with various characters appearing, such as the SchoolTeacher (the new, nasty Slave Owner at Sweet Home), Paul D, etc. I can see why people have loved this book, and appreciate why it has won so many awards, but I've struggled with it, and read so many books in the meantime whilst this has sat on my bedside table that I have been unable to pick it back up and finish it. I will therefore have to declare it a loss and move on
"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." Gehört zu VerlagsreihenKeltainen kirjasto (219) — 6 mehr Ist enthalten inRomanzi von Toni Morrison Bearbeitet/umgesetzt inIst gekürzt inHat eine Studie überEin Kommentar zu dem Text findet sich inHat als Erläuterung für Schüler oder Studenten
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. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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I won't waste my time opining on whether Beloved is "good." But I do want to say that I sometimes have a visceral reaction to excellent writing that makes me feel like I'm looking at a painting, as if the author has laid words on the page the same way a painter lays paint on canvas. This is one of those.
As for the debate about whether Beloved should be considered horror. Well. The resistance to classifying the novel as horror lies in the fact that the genre generally functions for shock value. We want vicarious thrills and shivers while we read about terrible things. That's not what's happening here, and it might seem disrespectful to try to shoehorn this book into that category. No one seeks out these kinds of shivers, at least no one sane. But Beloved absolutely is a horror novel, maybe the supreme example of a horror novel, in that it takes the ghost out of fiction, out of make-believe, and shows her to us fully fleshed, both in the context of the story and in the context of our own history and experience. If that's not horror, what is it?
#ReadICT 2019 categories 5, 6, 8, and 11 (classic, avoided, award winning, and character different than me) (