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So painful, so, so painful :´(
I mean... reading N.K.Jemisin's Fifth Season was painful, but that's Fantasy. I don't know how much Beloved is based on truth, but I can believe everything in it happened, somewhere, to someone... the cruelty, the... ignorance, the hatred...
I find it so hard to believe anyone could hate another person so much!
And not because this other person did something horrible to them, but because... because it's impossible to deny the truth that this other person is a human be ...more
I mean... reading N.K.Jemisin's Fifth Season was painful, but that's Fantasy. I don't know how much Beloved is based on truth, but I can believe everything in it happened, somewhere, to someone... the cruelty, the... ignorance, the hatred...
I find it so hard to believe anyone could hate another person so much!
And not because this other person did something horrible to them, but because... because it's impossible to deny the truth that this other person is a human be ...more
Poetic and powerful, Morrison deftly explores themes such as parental guilt, parental love, the breaking and mending of a human spirit, to name just a few. None of the characters are simple, one-dimensional archetypes, but instead they embody the contradictory, complex nuances found in most people. Beloved's personification of the horrors of slavery are truly disturbing, as is the casual references to the dehumanizing actions inflicted upon them.
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Brutal but important memory of slavery. So hard to read at times.
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