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The Bluest Eye [图书] 谷歌图书
作者: Toni Morrison Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007 - 07
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtly and grace.
 
In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
 
Here, Morrison’s writing is “so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry” (The New York Times).

读过 The Bluest Eye 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕
重读这本刚好和The Color Purple撞了档期是我意料之外的,然而这两本的遥遥互辉对我而言也是一种惊喜,Pecola和Celie一样有着悲惨的遭遇,甚至连“怀了父亲的孩子“这点都惊人相似,排除The Colour Purple结局中带有的一些美化和理想化的因素,两个人最大的区别恐怕是人际关系的连结,Celie有真诚地爱她帮助她的Shug和Sofia,哪怕在最最凄惨的时候总有一个远在天边甚至不知死活但总是她真正深爱也真正爱她的Nettie作为念想,而对于Pecola来说,她得到的只有来自Claudia和Frieda的朴素而懵懂的同情……重读这本,还是惊叹于Toni Morrison诗意的文笔,和用诗意的文笔构画出的残忍的图景、触目惊心的暴力和永远不会开放的万寿菊,这次重读,其实对Cholly这个角色的塑造有了更深的印象——Toni Morrison专门花了笔墨描写这个施暴者的过去,不是为了合理化他的行为,或是激发谁的什么同情心,恰恰是拒绝非人化这个“施暴者“的角色,从而让Pecola的痛苦之源变得更为真实,而这种切肤之痛也因此更为痛彻心扉——一次次伤害她的从来都不是“魔鬼”,而是一个个真实存在、有血有肉的人

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