书籍介绍
这不是一本好读的奴隸小说。它逼你亲手扒开一道早已结痂的伤口，直到十指血淋淋——正如读者反复说“太用力了”“太压抑了”。莫里森把镜头死死钉在黑人女性的身体上：被剜去的眼睛、被撕开的脊背、被砍断的手指，以及一个母亲为让孩子免于重蹈奴役而亲手结束的极端选择。全书没有廉价的同情，只有“爱或是爱，半吊子的爱根本不算爱”式的残酷诘问。它最刺痛人的地方，恰恰是那个被称作“Beloved”的亡女归来后，记忆、鬼魂与幸存者的愧疚如何彼此撕扯。适合那些愿意被震撼、被拷问，而非寻求慰藉的读者；它不提供答案，只留下长久的沉默。
作者简介
Toni Morrison (born Chloe Anthony Wofford), is an American author, editor, and professor who won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature for being an author "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality."
Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed African American characters; among the best known are her novels The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Beloved, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988. In 2001 she was named one of "The 30 Most Powerful Women in America" by Ladies' Home Journal.
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核心看点
- 直面奴隶制深渊，将历史化为如出埃及记般有力的故事
- 探讨创伤记忆与身份认同，揭示被压抑的黑人女性命运
- 魔幻现实主义笔法，以苦痛诗意重构被抹去的历史真相
读者共识
- 文笔尖刻凝练如刀，兼具残酷现实与融化残雪般的温柔
- 阅读体验极具挑战性，虽艰涩压抑但震撼心灵刻骨铭心
- 深刻揭示奴隶制创伤，赋予无声者歌声，重塑肉身存在
精彩摘录
- "白人们认为，不管有没有教养，每一张黑皮肤下都是热带丛林。不能行船的急流，荡来荡去的尖叫的狒狒，沉睡的蛇，觊觎着他们甜蜜的爱人血液的红牙床。从某种意义上讲，他讲，他想，他们说对了。黑人越是花力气说服他们，自己有多么温柔，多么聪明，仁爱，多么有人性，越是耗尽自己向白人证明黑人的某种不容置疑的信念，他们体内的丛林就越是深密、纷乱。但它不是黑人们从另一个（可以忍受的）地方带到这个地方的丛林。它是白人在他们体内栽下的丛林。它生长着。它蔓延着。在生命之中、之间和之后，它蔓延着，直到它最终侵犯了栽下它的白人。"
- "In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard. Yonder they do not love your flesh. They despise it. They don't love your eyes; they'd just as soon pick em out. No more do they love the skin on your back. Yonder they flay it. An"
- "“告诉我，斯坦普。”保罗D的眼睛潮湿了。“就告诉我这一件事一个黒鬼到底该受多少罪？告诉我。多少？” “能受多少受多少，”斯坦普・沛德说，“能受多少受多少。” “凭什么？凭什么？凭什么？凭什么？凭什么？”"
- "但她拒绝相信，自己走了那么远的路，受了那么多的罪，只是为了死在错误的那一岸。"
- "他只记得，要扒开须子找到顶尖，得用指甲抵在下面，才不至于碰破一粒。 扒下紧裹的叶鞘，撕扯的声音总让她觉得它很疼。 第一层皮一扒下来，其余的就屈服了，玉米穗向他横陈羞涩的排排苞粒，终于一览无余。玉米须多么松散。禁锢的香味多么飞快地四散奔逃。 尽管你用上了所有的牙齿，还有湿乎乎的手指头，你还是说不清，那点简单的乐趣如何令你心旌摇荡。 玉米须多么松散。多么美妙、松散、自由。"
- "A whip of fear broke through the 1 5 5 heart chambers as soon as you saw a Negro’s face in a paper, since the face was not there because the person had a healthy baby, or out- ran a street mob. Nor was it there because the person had been killed, or maimed or caught or burned or jailed or whipped or"
- "“Anything dead coming back to life hurts.” “I was talking about time. It’s so hard for me to believe in it. Some things go. Pass on. Some things just stay. I used to think it was my rememory. You know. Some things you forget. Other things you never do. But it’s not. Places, places are still there. I"
- "到一个你想爱什么就爱什么的地方去——欲望无得到批准——总而言之，那就是自由"
用户评论
太用力了。转身向内开挖伤口挖到双手血淋淋。
技术上很成功，奴隶视角令人震撼，但不好好讲故事的书看起来真是味同嚼蜡
disturbing and powerful
反正我是当鬼故事来读的⋯⋯
“To get to a place where you could love anything you chose — not to need permission for desire — well now, that was freedom.”
disturbing and appealing reading experience. But its depth and width is beyond the story itself, it’s not a story-telling book, but a history written with black people’s blood, tears and suffering. Sethe’s tree is haunting me, is it a symbol of her early life and the ‘murder’, which means it’s a burden she cannot get rid of?
Toni Morrison的笔触依旧细腻。
“Touched them every one. Changed and altered them. Made them bloody, silly, worse than even they wanted to be, so scared were they of the jungle they had made. ”
终于读完了…非线性的叙事经常在我好不容易跟上节奏之后一个闪回又把我闪晕了，坚持看下去故事主线大概看了个七七八八。以奴隶制为主题的作品，作者真的是直面苦难，不避讳又不沉溺。
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