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L' occhio piu azzurro (1970)

di Toni Morrison

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Fiction. African American Fiction. Literature. HTML:The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.
It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove??a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others??who 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 fulfil… (altro)
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This is an amazing, important work of literature and contribution to humanity. Toni Morrison's writing is astoundingly good, making it hard to put the book down. The subject matter, at times, can be very heavy and difficult to digest, causing much pondering and reflection after reading. This book is not to be approached lightly or trivialized. ( )
  eg4209 | Mar 9, 2024 |
This book is extraordinary in its success at evoking a time and place. The premise is simple: a poor young black girl grows up with a simple wish: to have blue eyes so she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children. The book’s enormous power is due, I think, largely to Morrison’s mastery of the English language. So much so that I have trouble imagining how this work could possibly be translated. It seems to me to be so inextricably intertwined with a place and time and with a vernacular use of English that it seems untranslatable. (I think, as an aside, that that is a great topic for another thread: how much works can be so much a part of the place and language and time as to be inaccessible to readers who read the work in a different place and a different time and a different language. Examples that pop to mind: Bely’s Petersburg or Goethe’s Faust, though of course the list is endless.) This is Morrison’s first book and it impressed me enormously. In the words of a goodread’s reviewer, it is a “haunting, poignant and unforgettable elegy to the horrors that American slavery spawned.” Although that reviewer was describing Morrison’s Beloved (not this book), I think the same observation holds true. This is a remarkable work: remarkable for its writing and for its clear-eyed, heartbreaking nostalgia for certain aspects of a world that is both gone and irretrievably still with us. ( )
  Gypsy_Boy | Feb 16, 2024 |
Grim and disturbing, but beautifully written. ( )
  AdioRadley | Jan 21, 2024 |
A nihilistic pedophilic nightmare of a book with an unhealthy fixation on racism.

My low rating is mostly because of reasons listed below.

We open on absolute scummy neighbors making up fights with other neighbors and imaginary talks. Then they drop Pecola's father has raped her while whining their flowers didn't grow this year but nobody's grew this year. I don't like that. What an awful intro character, these characters are terrible people and I want almost all of them to get hurt or injured.

There is a deep romanticization of suffering equaling beauty and grace. That to suffer makes you skilled or a better person. They believe if they suffer, they will be better people for it.

I cannot forgive that.

It's obviously a dated book with racism galore. I don't really care about that. It's obvious I will just beat a dead horse discussing it. But on the opposite end, it says misery and ugliness are not based off or exclusive to race. But the racism is directed towards all races and not just African American people.

There's some weird implication of the prostitute and the cat. I don't know if it's a euphemism about another woman or beastiality. It's unclear.

The Bluest Eyes has an absurd amount of pedophilia and incest. Not for a plot reason,but just existing. It even cuts from a scene of incest and child abuse as well as CSA to a pedophiles point of view and him talking about how he pays little girls for their time. A disgusting scene that has no reason to exist yet is in this book. There's no reason for this much pedophilia, and it does not drive the plot, it is just disgusting and creepy and wrong.

I'm not one for a pedophilia in most books even if it is for a plot reason, but this is by far some of the worst I've seen.

Pecola falls pregnant from the rape. They victim blame her for what they assume was willing. They think that if she fought harder she wouldn't have fallen pregnant or none of this would happen. Disgusting behavior that I cannot ignore. They all began gossiping about it like it's the local news. And some of them start saying that maybe she just doesn't want the baby because it's black. but she's black, obviously they don't understand how babies work or where they come from. And one even says that she should be happy that the baby's father is her father because she knows who the father of the baby is.

I hate this plotline.

The baby dies and everyone but Pecola is awful. This book ends without any hope. I'm not opposed to a hopeless ending, I've read a couple of books with really good hopeless ending, but this just felt mean and cruel and nasty to be mean and cruel and nasty and nothing else.

This is an extreme amount of racism towards everyone not just white people or black people, this book hates everyone just about, and everyone is a terrible hateful person who doesn't deserve to exist. I don't feel bad for anyone but Pecola.

An awful slog and I don't wish this book on anyone.

2 stars.

Too much graphic disgusting material. ( )
  Yolken | Jan 11, 2024 |
“Lonely was much better than alone.”

I’ll acknowledge from the start that this is a classic and is therefore on the majority of ‘must read’ lists. I’d heard so much hype that I admit I had high expectations, yet this just did not do it for me. Yes, it made me uncomfortable, as it should. Yes, it made me stop, think, and ask why, as it should. Still, it was disjointed and difficult to follow and very much read like a first novel. 200 pages should not have taken this long to wade through. ( )
  moosenoose | Dec 13, 2023 |
I have said "poetry." But "The Bluest Eye" is also history, sociology, folklore, nightmare and music. It is one thing to state that we have institutionalized waste, that children suffocate under mountains of merchandised lies. It is another thing to demonstrate that waste, to re-create those children, to live and die by it. Miss Morrison's angry sadness overwhelms.
 
Deeply poetic novel explores racial and sexual feelings.

aggiunto da vibesandall | modificaCommon Sense Media
 
Searing and haunting... [The Bluest Eye] is a unique piece of literature because it is both timeless and relevant

aggiunto da vibesandall | modificaThe Guardian, Bernice McFadden
 
I imagine if our greatest American novelist, William Faulkner, were alive today he would herald Toni Morrison's emergence as a kindred spirit... Discovering a writer like Toni Morrison is the rarest of pleasures

aggiunto da vibesandall | modificaThe Washington Post
 
A profoundly successful work of fiction... Taut and understated, harsh in its detachment, sympathetic in its truth...it is an experience

aggiunto da vibesandall | modificaDetroit Free Press
 

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Nome dell'autoreRuoloTipo di autoreOpera?Stato
Morrison, Toniautore primariotutte le edizioniconfermato
Žantovský, MichaelTraduttoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Balacco, LuisaTraduttoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Bofill, MireiaTraduttoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Cousté, AlbertoIntroduzioneautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Dee, RubyNarratoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Dorsman-Vos, W.A.Traduttoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Hallén, KerstinTraduttoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Häupl, MichaelPrefazioneautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Lázár JúliaTraduttoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Pilz, ThomasTraduttoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Rademacher, SusannaTraduttoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Schmidt-Dengler, WendelinPostfazioneautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Schneider, HelmutCollaboratoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Thigpen, LynneNarratoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Vink, NettieTraduttoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
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Quiet as it's kept, there were no marigolds in the fall of 1941. We thought, at the time, that it was because Pecola was having her father's baby that the marigolds did not grow. A little examination and much less melancholy would have proved to us that our seeds were not the only ones that did not sprout; nobody's did. Not even the gardens fronting the lake showed marigolds that year. But so deeply concerned were we with the health and safe delivery of Pecola's baby we could think of nothing but our own magic: if we planted the seeds, and said the right words over them, they would blossom, and everything would be alright. It was a long time before my sister and I admitted to ourselves that no green was going to spring from our seeds. Once we knew, our guilt was relieved only by fights and mutual accusations about who was to blame. For years I thought my sister was right: it was my fault. I had planted them too far down in the earth. It never occured to either one of us that the earth itself might have been unyielding. We had dropped our seeds in our own little plot of black dirt just as Pecola's father had dropped his seeds in his own plot of black dirt. Our innocence and faith were no more productive than his lust or despair. What is clear now is that of all of that hope, fear, lust, love, and grief, nothing remains but Pecola and the unyielding earth. Cholly Breedlove is dead; our innocence too. The seeds shriveled and died; her baby too. There is really nothing more to say--except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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And it is the blackness that accounts for, that creates,the vacuum edged with distaste in white eyes.
But we listened for the one who would say, “Poor little girl,” or, “Poor baby,” but there was only head-wagging where those words should have been. We looked for eyes creased with concern, but saw only veils.
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Fiction. African American Fiction. Literature. HTML:The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.
It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove??a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others??who 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 fulfil

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