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Bezig met laden... The Bluest Eye: A Novel (origineel 1970; editie 1970)door Toni Morrison
Informatie over het werkHet blauwste oog door Toni Morrison (1970)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. My first Morrison re-read mainly because there was a read event with Literacy Partners with some wonderful people/authors on Youtube, while reading along with a copy in my hands. I can't believe the first time I read this was twenty years ago. Admittedly, it was the Morrison I thought was mostly Just Fine, so I wanted to see if I am a better reader now. I would hope. Originally, the only thing I remembered was being annoyed that a little girl wanted blue eyes, so entirely have transformed the book over time, due to my faulty memory, as the yearning for blue eyes being the entire plot. Wow, wrong. Morrison was already a genius with her first book, even if she herself thought there were problems in the execution here. I notice a bit of that, but also admire what Morrison was trying to say here, the purpose of the book. Shocking is how much I have forgotten in the book-- however, I would guess my brain might have forgotten a lot of this intentionally, as much of it is so miserable. I'm happy to have re-read it, only for better appreciation. ( ) The message of this book is so important, but the presentation was scattered and difficult for me to understand. I did understand that the characters were always aware of their race and their place in society, whether that society be Black or white. And even though this book was set in 1941, bigotry is still very much present. With the difficulties of the book, I did feel for many of the characters, even those who behaved in ways that upset me. This is at least my 2nd time reading it, and it is worth reading again. This is an amazing, important work of literature and contribution to humanity. Toni Morrison's writing is astoundingly good, making it hard to put the book down. The subject matter, at times, can be very heavy and difficult to digest, causing much pondering and reflection after reading. This book is not to be approached lightly or trivialized. This book is extraordinary in its success at evoking a time and place. The premise is simple: a poor young black girl grows up with a simple wish: to have blue eyes so she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children. The book’s enormous power is due, I think, largely to Morrison’s mastery of the English language. So much so that I have trouble imagining how this work could possibly be translated. It seems to me to be so inextricably intertwined with a place and time and with a vernacular use of English that it seems untranslatable. (I think, as an aside, that that is a great topic for another thread: how much works can be so much a part of the place and language and time as to be inaccessible to readers who read the work in a different place and a different time and a different language. Examples that pop to mind: Bely’s Petersburg or Goethe’s Faust, though of course the list is endless.) This is Morrison’s first book and it impressed me enormously. In the words of a goodread’s reviewer, it is a “haunting, poignant and unforgettable elegy to the horrors that American slavery spawned.” Although that reviewer was describing Morrison’s Beloved (not this book), I think the same observation holds true. This is a remarkable work: remarkable for its writing and for its clear-eyed, heartbreaking nostalgia for certain aspects of a world that is both gone and irretrievably still with us.
I have said "poetry." But "The Bluest Eye" is also history, sociology, folklore, nightmare and music. It is one thing to state that we have institutionalized waste, that children suffocate under mountains of merchandised lies. It is another thing to demonstrate that waste, to re-create those children, to live and die by it. Miss Morrison's angry sadness overwhelms. Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)Keltainen kirjasto (270) rororo neue frau (4392) Eine Stadt. Ein Buch. (2006) Is opgenomen inRomanzi door Toni Morrison Is verkort inHeeft als een commentaar op de tekstHeeft als studiegids voor studentenBevat een handleiding voor docentenOnderscheidingenErelijsten
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