Gift Edition, 321 pagine

lingua English

Pubblicato il 29 Settembre 1998 da Knopf.

ISBN:
978-0-375-40273-9
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"Beloved possesses the heightened power and resonance of myth. An extraordinary novel." --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

Toni Morrison's magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel--first published in 1987--brought the unimaginable experience of slavery into the literature of our time and into our comprehension. Set in post-Civil War Ohio, it is the story of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked her life in order to wrench herself from a living death; who has lost a husband and buried a child; who has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad. Sethe, who now lives in a small house on the edge of town with her daughter, Denver, her mother-in-law, Baby Suggs, and a disturbing, mesmerizing apparition who calls herself Beloved. Sethe works at "beating back the past," but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly: in her memory; in Denver's fear of the world outside the house; in the sadness that consumes Baby …

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ha recensito Beloved di Toni Morrison (Beloved Trilogy, #1)

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This book walks around you over and over again, dizzying you deeper into different characters' pasts and thoughts. When it reaches a climax, it's like you fall over, and then are pulled back up, and made dizzy again. I found myself entranced with Morrison's writing. I've never read her before, except 'The Bluest Eye' over 15 years ago in college that I don't remember it at all. I listened to the audiobook, too, which is narrated by Morrison. I have to admit, there were times I didn't understand what was happening, or what had just happened. The story would press on, and I'd have to make sense of it. That's why this is 4 stars for me, but it's probably my own flaw in being able to understand. However, I also think that's the point, to not quite understand sometimes. I will reread this at some point.

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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 …

Argomenti

  • African American women--Fiction.
  • Women slaves--Fiction.
  • Infanticide--Fiction.
  • Ohio--Fiction.

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