Beloved

275 pages

English language

Published 1996 by Alfred A. Knopf.

OCLC Number:
15284982

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After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved." Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things begin to happen. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest novel, a dazzling achievement, and the most spellbinding reading experience of the decade. A brutally powerful, mesmerizing story- read it and tremble. At the center of Toni Morrison's fifth novel, which earned her the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, is an almost unspeakable act of horror and heroism: a woman brutally kills her infant daughter rather than allow her to be enslaved. The woman is Sethe, and the novel traces her journey from slavery to freedom during and immediately following the Civil War. Woven …

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reviewed Beloved by Toni Morrison (Beloved Trilogy, #1)

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This book walks around you over and over again, dizzying you deeper into different characters' pasts and thoughts. When it reaches a climax, it's like you fall over, and then are pulled back up, and made dizzy again. I found myself entranced with Morrison's writing. I've never read her before, except 'The Bluest Eye' over 15 years ago in college that I don't remember it at all. I listened to the audiobook, too, which is narrated by Morrison. I have to admit, there were times I didn't understand what was happening, or what had just happened. The story would press on, and I'd have to make sense of it. That's why this is 4 stars for me, but it's probably my own flaw in being able to understand. However, I also think that's the point, to not quite understand sometimes. I will reread this at some point.

reviewed Beloved by Toni Morrison (Beloved Trilogy, #1)

La Herida Que Respira Todavía

Al leer Beloved de Toni Morrison sentí que entraba en un territorio emocional que no podía atravesar con prisa. La historia de Sethe, marcada por la esclavitud y atormentada por el espíritu de su hija, me obligó a sostener una atención más lenta y respetuosa. Desde las primeras páginas noté que cada detalle tenía un peso particular. A veces me descubría haciendo pausas, casi para tomar aire, porque la intensidad del dolor que Morrison describe no admite ligerezas.

Seguí a Sethe en su casa de Cincinnati y me afectó la forma en que el pasado aparece sin permiso. Cada aparición del fantasma me produjo una mezcla de inquietud y comprensión. Sentí que Morrison me invitaba a reconocer que ciertos recuerdos no se guardan porque sí. Se imponen. Me llamó la atención cómo la autora enlaza lo cotidiano con lo sobrenatural sin perder claridad. Mientras avanzaba, me di cuenta de …