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Sula

Toni Morrison

出版社

Vintage

出版时间

2004-05-31

ISBN

9781400033430

评分

★★★★★
书籍介绍

Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah. But their friendship ends in an unforgivable betrayal—or does it end? Terrifying, comic, ribald and tragic, Sula is a work that overflows with life.

托妮•莫里森(Toni Morrison)

美国著名女作家。1931年生于俄亥俄州,曾在兰登书屋担任高级编辑,后赴普林斯顿大学等校任教。代表作有《最蓝的眼睛》《所罗门之歌》《宠儿》《爵士乐》《爱》《恩惠》等,囊括普利策小说奖、美国国家图书奖、全美书评家协会奖三项美国最重要的图书大奖,1993年荣获诺贝尔文学奖。

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The laughter was part of the pain.
为了主角的"resistance to either sacrifice or accommodation"——如果世界不配得到任何一者,那就一样也不必给它
又美又狠。那么道德是看目的还是看结果呢?看施者还是受者呢?在风一样侵虐的爱的故事里,我的疑问可能是蠢了。
Toni Morrison 说她写这本书时思考的东西:What is friendship between women when unmediated by men? What choices are available to black women outside their own society’s approval? What are the risks of individualism in a determinedly individualistic ,yet racially uniform and socially static, community?
与其说看了一本小说,倒不如说是看了一本黑人女性自我剖析精神世界的自白。把秀拉当成婊子和荡妇,实际上就是把自己看成婊子和荡妇。我们没有资格站在道德制高点上对他人进行道德批判。当我道德审判他人之时,我自己也将得到他人的道德审判。
一本关于“局外人”的故事。不过Sula是一个刻意的、执意的局外人,当所有人固守在那个高高在上的Bottom时,她偏要离开,在所有人想让她永远离开时,她却又随着知更鸟的尸体归来。Nel和Sula两人从生到死的角逐让我想起那不勒斯,同样深刻、浓烈、复杂到难以用几句话概述的女性联系。
Toni Morrison的语言统摄了整个世界,她让我相信一切人的目光和双脚抵达不了的地方,语言都能抵达。文字美得惊心动魄,极致的美延宕了目睹惨相时心灵的灼痛,纯粹的美所带来的震撼消散之后,悲伤才流涌而来。
How to survive and identity yourself as one of the minority & minority women? Toni Morrison真的太会写了,兼具语言和思想的美感。她在前言表达了少数族裔作家在写种族困境时面临的问题,在于人人往往会忽略他们作品本身的文学性。读完原版,显然她是展现了极其优美的文学性。
杰作 morrison的sentence是有节奏的 可以贯穿200页的prose “In 1969, in Queens, snatching liberty seemed compelling. Some of us thrived; some of us died. All of us had a taste.”