Toni Morrison - Beloved

Здесь есть возможность читать онлайн «Toni Morrison - Beloved» весь текст электронной книги совершенно бесплатно (целиком полную версию без сокращений). В некоторых случаях можно слушать аудио, скачать через торрент в формате fb2 и присутствует краткое содержание. Жанр: Современная проза, на английском языке. Описание произведения, (предисловие) а так же отзывы посетителей доступны на портале библиотеки ЛибКат.

Beloved: краткое содержание, описание и аннотация

Предлагаем к чтению аннотацию, описание, краткое содержание или предисловие (зависит от того, что написал сам автор книги «Beloved»). Если вы не нашли необходимую информацию о книге — напишите в комментариях, мы постараемся отыскать её.

"DAZZLING… MAGICAL… AN EXTRAORDINARY WORK!" -New York Times
"BRILLIANT… RESONATES FROM PAST TO PRESENT." – San Francisco Chronicle
"A MAGNIFICENT HEROINE… A GLORIOUS BOOK!" – Baltimore Sun
"BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN… POWERFUL…
TONI MORRISON HAS BECOME ONE OF AMERICA 'S FINEST NOVELISTS." -Cleveland Plain Dealer
"THERE IS SOMETHING GREAT IN BELOVED: A PLAY OF HUMAN VOICES, CONSCIOUSLY EXALTED, PERVERSELY STRESSED, YET HOLDING TRUE. IT GETS YOU." – The New Yorker
"A STUNNING BOOK… A LASTING ACHIEVEMENT!" -Christian Science Monitor
"Magical… rich, provocative, extremely satisfying!" – Milwaukee Journal
"Superb… a profound and shattering story that carries the weight of history… exquisitely told." -Cosmopolitan
"Compelling… Morrison shakes that brilliant kaleidoscope of hers again, and the story of pain, endurance, poetry, and power she is born to tell comes out right." -Village Voice
"In her most probing novel, Toni Morrison has demonstrated once again the stunning powers that place her in the first ranks of our living novelists." – St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Shattering emotional power and impact!" -New York Daily News
"A book worth many rereadings." – Glamour
"Astonishing… a triumph!"-New Woman
"A work of genuine force… beautifully written." -Washington Post
"Written with a force rarely seen in contemporary fiction… One feels deep admiration." -USA Today
"Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure of our national literature."-New York Review of Books
"Heart-wrenching… mesmerizing!" – Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"Powerful is too tame a word to describe Toni Morrison's searing new novel." -Library Journal
"Shatteringly eloquent."-Booklist
"A rich, mythical novel… a triumph!"- St. Petersburg Times
"Powerful… voluptuous!" – New York Magazine

Beloved — читать онлайн бесплатно полную книгу (весь текст) целиком

Ниже представлен текст книги, разбитый по страницам. Система сохранения места последней прочитанной страницы, позволяет с удобством читать онлайн бесплатно книгу «Beloved», без необходимости каждый раз заново искать на чём Вы остановились. Поставьте закладку, и сможете в любой момент перейти на страницу, на которой закончили чтение.

Тёмная тема
Сбросить

Интервал:

Закладка:

Сделать

It was not a story to pass on.

They forgot her like a bad dream. After they made up their tales, shaped and decorated them, those that saw her that day on the porch quickly and deliberately forgot her. It took longer for those who had spoken to her, lived with her, fallen in love with her, to forget, until they realized they couldn't remember or repeat a single thing she said, and began to believe that, other than what they themselves were thinking, she hadn't said anything at all. So, in the end, they forgot her too. Remembering seemed unwise. They never knew where or why she crouched, or whose was the underwater face she needed like that. Where the memory of the smile under her chin might have been and was not, a latch latched and lichen attached its apple-green bloom to the metal. What made her think her fingernails could open locks the rain rained on?

It was not a story to pass on.

So they forgot her. Like an unpleasant dream during a troubling sleep. Occasionally, however, the rustle of a skirt hushes when they wake, and the knuckles brushing a cheek in sleep seem to belong to the sleeper. Sometimes the photograph of a close friend or relative-looked at too long-shifts, and something more familiar than the dear face itself moves there. They can touch it if they like, but don't, because they know things will never be the same if they do.

This is not a story to pass on.

Down by the stream in back of 124 her footprints come and go, come and go. They are so familiar. Should a child, an adult place his feet in them, they will fit. Take them out and they disappear again as though nobody ever walked there.

By and by all trace is gone, and what is forgotten is not only the footprints but the water too and what it is down there. The rest is weather. Not the breath of the disremembered and unaccounted for, but wind in the eaves, or spring ice thawing too quickly. Just weather.

Certainly no clamor for a kiss.

Beloved.

About the author

TONI MORRISON was born in Lorain, Ohio. The recipient of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature, and of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for Beloved, she is the author of six other novels. The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, which won the 1978 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, Tar Baby, Jazz, and Paradise, which are available or forthcoming in Plume editions. She is Robert F.Goheen Professor, Council of the Humanities, at Princeton University.

Тёмная тема
Сбросить

Интервал:

Закладка:

Сделать

Похожие книги на «Beloved»

Представляем Вашему вниманию похожие книги на «Beloved» списком для выбора. Мы отобрали схожую по названию и смыслу литературу в надежде предоставить читателям больше вариантов отыскать новые, интересные, ещё непрочитанные произведения.


Отзывы о книге «Beloved»

Обсуждение, отзывы о книге «Beloved» и просто собственные мнения читателей. Оставьте ваши комментарии, напишите, что Вы думаете о произведении, его смысле или главных героях. Укажите что конкретно понравилось, а что нет, и почему Вы так считаете.

x