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Toni Morrison, A. S. Byatt: Beloved (2006, Everyman)

360, pagine

lingua English

Pubblicato il 24 Settembre 2006 da Everyman.

ISBN:
978-1-85715-268-5
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Toni Morrison--author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby--is a writer of remarkable powers: her novels, brilliantly acclaimed for their passion, their dazzling language and their lyric and emotional force, combine the unassailable truths of experience and emotion with the vision of legend and imagination. It is the story--set in post-Civil War Ohio--of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked death 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: a woman of "iron eyes and backbone to match." Sethe lives in a small house on the edge of town with her daughter, Denver, her mother-in-law, Baby Suggs, and a disturbing, mesmerizing intruder who calls herself Beloved. Sethe works at "beating back the past," but it is alive in all of them. It keeps Denver fearful of straying from the house. It …

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

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4 stelle

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

  • American fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Ohio, fiction
  • African americans, fiction
  • Slaves, fiction
  • Fiction, historical

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