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„Čudesno ostvarenje… američko remek-delo.“ The Guardian
Jedno od najznačajnijih ostvarenja američke književnosti. Roman za koji je Toni Morison dobila Pulicerovu nagradu.
U teškim godinama koje su usledile nakon Građanskog rata, odbegla robinja Seta živi u Ohaju, progonjena košmarnim sećanjima na Slatki dom, farmu na kojoj je živela. Njen novi dom zaposednuo je destruktivni duh koji čini sve da joj oteža život, ali prema kojem ona oseća beskrajnu nežnost. To je Voljena, njena kći kojoj je u vreme bekstva, u strahu da će biti uhvaćena i svirepo kažnjena, oduzela život. Na dečjem grobu nema čak ni imena, kao epitaf urezano je samo VOLJENA.
Pričom o sudbini junaka ovog romana prikazuju se sve strahote ropstva – otimanje iz rodne zemlje, ubijanja, mučenja, ponižavanja – da bi napokon slobodni, ti ljudi, slomljeni i poraženi, morali se bore sa teškim krizama identiteta i traumama koje su doživeli, potiskujći prošlost u najdublje zakutke uma ne bi li uopšte mogli da nastave da žive, ili pre da konačno počnu da žive. Kroz sav taj mrak vodi ih jedino iskra slobode, koja je dragocenija i od samog života. Zureći neustrašivo u ambis ropstva, ovaj opčinjujući roman transformiše istoriju u priču koja je snažna poput Egzodusa i intimna poput uspavanke.
„Voljena još jedan trijumf Toni Morison. Zaista, njena svestranost, veština i dijapazon emocija ne poznaju granice. Ukoliko postoji ikakve sumnje u njen status jednog od najznačajnijih romanopisaca u Americi ne samo svoje generacije već uopšte, roman Voljena će ih sve raspršiti.“ Margaret Atvud, New York Times Book Review
„Ona spaja užas i lepotu u priči koja će vas zanavek potresti.“ Sunday Times
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Toni Morrison's writing style is like poetry in prose format. It's absolutely beautiful, and I've never read another book like it. It also has some of the downsides of poetry, like being really confusing, but if you can puzzle it out, it has really deep meaning. This book is also an inspiration to me as a young writer because it proves that you don't have to follow the "rules" of writing to be a successful author. There's single paragraphs that run on for pages, and Morrison even wrote an entire chapter without punctuation-yet she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction! It's definitely an uncomfortable read, one that will make the reader face the horrible things that happened in the past and their consequences, as well as a confusing timeline and confusing sentences. But! If you're anything like me, it 100% pays off.
In the troubled years following the Civil War, the spirit of a murdered child haunts the Ohio home of a former slave. This angry, destructive ghost breaks mirrors, leaves its fingerprints in cake icing, and generally makes life difficult for Sethe and her family; nevertheless, the woman finds the haunting oddly comforting for the spirit is that of her own dead baby, never named, thought of only as Beloved. A dead child, a runaway slave, a terrible secret--these are the central concerns of Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning Beloved. Beloved is a dense, complex novel that yields up its secrets one by one. As Morrison takes us deeper into Sethe's history and her memories, the horrifying circumstances of her baby's death start to make terrible sense. And as past meets present in the shape of a mysterious young woman about the same age as Sethe's daughter would have been, the narrative builds inexorably to its powerful, painful conclusion. Beloved may well be the defining novel of slavery in America, the one that all others will be measured by.