托妮•莫裏森(Toni Morrison)
美國著名女作傢。1931年生於俄亥俄州,曾在蘭登書屋擔任高級編輯,後赴普林斯頓大學等校任教。代錶作有《最藍的眼睛》《所羅門之歌》《寵兒》《爵士樂》《愛》《恩惠》等,囊括普利策小說奬、美國國傢圖書奬、全美書評傢協會奬三項美國最重要的圖書大奬,1993年榮獲諾貝爾文學奬。
Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), was acclaimed as the work of an important talent, written--as John Leonard said in The New York Times--in a prose "so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry."
Her new novel has the same power, the same beauty.
At its center--a friendship between two women, a friendship whose intensity first sustains, then injures. Sula and Nel--both black, both smart, both poor, raised in a small Ohio town--meet when they are twelve, wishbone thin and dreaming of princes.
Through their girlhood years they share everything--perceptions, judgments, yearnings, secrets, even crime--until Sula gets out, out of the Bottom, the hilltop neighborhood where beneath the sporting life of the men hanging around the place in headrags and soft felt hats there hides a fierce resentment at failed crops, lost jobs, thieving insurance men, bug-ridden flour...at the invisible line that cannot be overstepped.
Sula leaps it and roams the cities of America for ten years. Then she returns to the town, to her friend. But Nel is a wife now, settled with her man and her three children. She belongs. She accommodates to the Bottom, where you avoid the hand of God by getting in it, by staying upright, helping out at church suppers, asking after folks--where you deal with evil by surviving it.
Not Sula. As willing to feel pain as to give pain, she can never accommodate. Nel can't understand her any more, and the others never did. Sula scares them. Mention her now, and they recall that she put her grandma in an old folks' home (the old lady who let a train take her leg for the insurance)...that a child drowned in the river years ago...that there was a plague of robins when she first returned...
In clear, dark, resonant language, Toni Morrison brilliantly evokes not only a bond between two lives, but the harsh, loveless, ultimately mad world in which that bond is destroyed, the world of the Bottom and its people, through forty years, up to the time of their bewildered realization that even more than they feared Sula, their pariah, they needed her.
發表於2024-11-01
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看貧苦地區作傢的作品,總會驚異於他們所描述的神秘主義氛圍,比如拉美作傢、中東作傢、中國農村作傢以及黑人作傢,比如加西亞 馬爾剋斯,比如卡勒德 鬍塞尼,比如莫言,比如托尼 莫裏森。 托尼 莫裏森是第一位獲得諾貝爾文學奬的黑人作傢,我看黑人作品很少,但是對於她的這...
評分這本書我剛讀完。作者用樸實的黑人語言給我們展示瞭20-60年代美國黑人的生活,感覺內涵很豐富,甚至有一點雜亂,不過最頭疼的是我還有寫一篇讀後感,哎~~
評分這本書的腰封裏有兩句話“愛是天空。背叛是閃電,撕裂天空,讓我們看清楚。”“仇人會傷害一個人,朋友則會徹底毀滅一個人。”我總覺得這兩句介紹用的不恰當,用詞太大膽,怎麼能說是“背叛”?怎麼能說是“毀滅”?你們覺得呢?
評分真實、自我、天賦、想象力、勇氣....如果不在閤適的環境,到底是幸運還是詛咒? 一些摘錄: 有瞭她,他就是一傢之主,隻是齣於必要纔對,拴在一份令人不滿意的工作上。 被外人看作懶散邋遢甚至是慷慨的習性,實際上都是對不良力量存在的閤理性的全麵認可。 她好久都沒有像這樣...
評分這本書的腰封裏有兩句話“愛是天空。背叛是閃電,撕裂天空,讓我們看清楚。”“仇人會傷害一個人,朋友則會徹底毀滅一個人。”我總覺得這兩句介紹用的不恰當,用詞太大膽,怎麼能說是“背叛”?怎麼能說是“毀滅”?你們覺得呢?
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