宠儿(二十世纪外国文学精选)(Beloved)
分類: 图书,小说(旧类),外国小说,美洲,美国,
品牌: 莫里森
基本信息·出版社:外语教学与研究出版社
·页码:275 页
·出版日期:2000年
·ISBN:7560018475
·条形码:9787560018478
·包装版本:第1版
·装帧:平装
·开本:32
·正文语种:英语
·外文书名:Beloved
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内容简介《宠儿》(二十世纪外国文学精选)通过逃亡女黑奴塞丝的经历,深刻揭露了奴隶制及对黑人心理的影响,它甚至超过了他们所受的苦难本身,本书意义深刻,是现代文学的经典之作。 《宠儿》堪称美国黑人历史的一座纪念碑。主要情节取材于一个真实的历史故事。小说中的主人公——女黑奴塞丝怀着身孕只身从肯塔基的奴隶庄园逃到俄亥俄的辛辛那提,奴隶主循踪追至,为了使儿女不再重复自己做奴隶的悲惨命运,她毅然杀死了自己的一个女儿。虽然这已是18年前的往事,但往事的梦魇一刻也不曾停止过对塞丝的纠缠……
作者简介托妮·莫里森(Toni Morrison)
1931年2月18日出生于美国俄亥俄州,毕业于霍华德大学本科,获康奈尔大学文学硕士学位。她曾在兰登书屋做过编辑,在纽约州立大学,耶鲁大学任教。1987年起任普林斯顿大学教授,讲授写作至今。1993年,托妮·莫里森被瑞典文学院授予诺贝尔文学奖。
编辑推荐《宠儿》(二十世纪外国文学精选)获1987年度普利策奖。1998年,《宠儿》被搬上银幕,著名电视主持人奥普拉·温芙蕾饰演塞丝。
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文摘"My woman ? You mean my mother? If she did, I don't remember. I didn't see her but a few times out in the fields and once when she was working indigo. By the time I woke up in the morning, she was in line. If the moon was bright they worked by its light. Sunday she slept like a stick. She must of nursed me two or three weeks that's the way the others did. Then she went back in rice and I sucked from
another woman whose job it was. So to answer you, no. I reckon not. She never fixed my hair nor nothing. She didn't even sleep in the same cabin most nights I remember. Too far from the line-up, I guess. One thing she did do. She picked me up and carried me behind the smokehouse. Back there she opened up her dress front and lifted her breast and pointed under it. Right on her rib was a circle and a
cross burnt right in the skin. She said, 'This is your ma'am. This,' and she pointed. 'I am the only one got this mark now. The rest dead. If something happens to me and you can't tell me by my face, you can know me by this mark.' Scared me so. All I could think of was how important this was and how I needed to have something important to say back, but I couldn't think of anything so I just said
what I thought. 'Yes, Ma'am,' I said. 'But how will you know me? How will you know me? Mark me, too,' I said. 'Mark the mark on me too.'" Sethe chuckled.
D E N V E R'S S E C R E T S were sweet. Accompanied every time by wild veronica until she discovered cologne. The first bottle was a gift, the next she stole from her mother and hid among boxwood until it froze and cracked. That was the year winter came in a hurry at suppertime and stayed eight months. One of the War years when Miss Bodwin,the whitewoman, brought Christmas cologne for her mother and herself, oranges for the boys and another good wool shawl for Baby
Suggs. Talking of a war full of dead people, she looked happy——flush-faced, and although her voice was heavy as a man's, she smelled like a roomful of
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