藍的眼睛
The Bluest Eye
諾貝爾文學獎得主託妮·莫裡森作品
Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the year the marigolds in the Breedloves' garden do not bloom. Pecola's life does change- in painful, devastating ways.
What its vivid evocation of the fear and loneliness at the heart of a child's yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment. The Bluest Eye remains one of Tony Morrisons's most powerful, unforgettable novels- and a significant work of American fiction.
The Bluest Eye《藍的眼睛》是美國作家託妮·莫裡森創作的長篇小說，講述的是發生在1941年俄亥俄州洛林市某個黑人社區一個11歲的黑人小姑娘皮科拉的悲劇生活。
媒體評論
「莫裡森在小說中以豐富的想像力和富有詩意的表達方式使美國現實的一個極其重要的方面充滿活力。」 ——諾貝爾文學獎頒獎辭
「《藍的眼睛》如此精準地描繪了人物，如此忠實地還原了話語，充滿了如此疼痛和令人震驚的事實，於是它成為了一首詩。」 ——《紐約時報》
「極為成功的小說……緊湊而樸實，因冷靜觀察而犀利，因觸及真實而悲憫……閱讀《藍的眼睛》是一次動人的體驗。」 ——《底特律自由報》
「這個故事要你陷入其中，因為它囊括了一個女孩的整個宇宙。」 ——《新聞周刊》
「《藍的眼睛》是為世上飢餓與孱弱的孩子譜寫的一曲輓歌。」 ——《每日電訊》
「莫裡森的風格讓讀者入迷……她的行文調動了多重感官，常常富有韻律，甚至如同詠唱，讓人想起福克納和艾米麗·迪金森。」 ——《泰晤士報文學增刊》
Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni Morrison’s virtuosic first novel asks powerful questions about race, class, and gender with the subtlety and grace that have always characterized her writing.
Review
「So precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry.」 — The New York Times
「A profoundly successful work of fiction.... Taut and understated, harsh in its detachment, sympathetic in its truth . . . it is an experience.」 — The Detroit Free Press
「This story commands attention, for it contains one black girl’s universe.」 — Newsweek
Toni Morrison has been the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the Robert F. Goheen Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Princeton University. She lives in Rockland County, New York, and Princeton, New Jersey.
黑人小姑娘佩科拉渴望擁有一雙白人小女孩那樣的藍眼睛。如果她的眼睛是藍色的，也許，她就會變漂亮，學校裡的同學就不會再欺負她了。如果她有一雙藍色的眼睛，也許父親就不再酗酒，母親不再躲避自己的家人，哥哥也不會再離家出走。為此，她整夜祈求，可等待她的，卻是一樁無人能夠料想的悲劇……
到頭來，我們所有的希望、恐懼、愛和悲傷，都和那一年鎮上的金盞花一樣，顆粒無收。
託妮·莫裡森（Toni Morrison），美國女作家。1931年生於俄亥俄州，曾在蘭登書屋擔任編輯，後赴普林斯頓大學等校任教。代表作有《藍的眼睛》《所羅門之歌》《寵兒》《爵士樂》《愛》《恩惠》等，曾獲普利茲小說獎、美國書評家協會獎、美國國家圖書獎等多項大獎。1993年，榮獲諾貝爾文學獎。
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