Mouth Full of Blood

Resumen del libro

A vital new non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered writers of our time'We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language.

That may be the measure of our lives.' The Nobel Lecture in Literature, 1993The power of language, discussed beautifully in Toni Morrison's Nobel lecture, is felt throughout the essays, speeches and meditations contained in this collection. With controlled anger, elegance, and literary excellence, Morrison's words interrogate the world around us, considering race, gender, and globalisation. Heart-stoppingly introduced by a prayer for the dead of 9/11, a meditation on Martin Luther King Jr.

and a eulogy for James Baldwin, this collection addresses audiences ranging from graduating students to visitors to both the Louvre and America's Black Holocaust Museum. A Mouth Full of Blood is a powerful, erudite and essential gathering of ideas that speaks to us all. 'These pieces are a wake-up call...

and a brilliant insight into the mind and work of one of the world's finest writers' Anita Sethi, i'Mouth Full of Blood is a bracing reminder of what words do, how carefully they should and can be used... magnificent and rigorously argued' RO Kwon, Guardian

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Toni Morrison x{0026}lt;/B (1931-2019) nació en Lorain (Ohio). Alternó su trabajo de profesora de Humanidades en la Universidad de Princeton con la actividad literaria. En sus obras planteó la problemática de la población negra en Estados Unidos, en especial la situación de las mujeres. Fue autora de las novelas x{0026}lt;I Ojos azulesx{0026}lt;/I (1970), x{0026}lt;I Sula x{0026}lt;/I (1973), x{0026}lt;I La canción de Salomónx{0026}lt;/I (1977, National Book Critics Circle Award en 1978), x{0026}lt;I La isla de los caballerosx{0026}lt;/I (1981), x{0026}lt;I Beloved x{0026}lt;/I (1987, Premio Pulitzer), x{0026}lt;I Jazz x{0026}lt;/I (1992), x{0026}lt;I Paraíso x{0026}lt;/I (1997), x{0026}lt;I Amor x{0026}lt;/I (2003), x{0026}lt;I Una bendición x{0026}lt;/I (2008; Lumen, 2009), x{0026}lt;I Volver x{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2012) y x{0026}lt;I La noche de los niñosx{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2016), y de ensayos como x{0026}lt;I El origen de los otrosx{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2018). x{0026}lt;I La fuente de la autoestimax{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2020) es su último libro. En 1993 obtuvo el Premio Nobel de Literatura. Murió en agosto de 2019 en el pequeño pueblo neoyorquino de Grand View-on-Hudson a los ochenta y ocho años de edad.x{0026}lt;/P