Bluest Eye
A Classics, Cultural, Race book. But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the...
Oprah Book Club® Selection, April 2000: Originally published in 1970, The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel. In an afterword written more than two decades later, the author expressed her dissatisfaction with the book's language and structure: "It required a sophistication unavailable to me." Perhaps we can chalk up this verdict to modesty, or to...
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- Pages: 224 pages
- ISBN: 9780451183675 / 451183673
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer. Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye // guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness. Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye // They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up into a fiery cone of scorn that had burned for ages in the hollows of their minds cooled and spilled over lips of outrage, consuming whatever was in its path. Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye //
I'm left thinking, if more people read this quality of novel, the world would be a better place. Unfortunately if the world didn't have any ugliness, this type of book wouldn't have been written... I wonder who the Mexican Toni Morrison is. Her work is super hard to peg down, analyze or define.A definitive stylist, a poet, Morrison is brilliant. There is one scene deeply ingrained somewhere in the schism that is this beautiful book which will stay with me forever. It involves the main character, a little impressionable girl of... I finally (finally!) read my first Toni Morrison novel and it did not disappoint. The Bluest Eye is the story of Pecola, who wishes desperately for blue eyes, which she equates with beauty, belonging, and all that is good in the world. Pecola does not have a good childhood (her father is a drunk and her mother barely cares for her children)...
