Toni Morrison: Beloved

Bookworm

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4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

From the archives, a highly resonate conversation with Toni Morrison about transfiguring love, as portrayed in her novel Beloved.

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:04.1	Boots!
0:09.0	Where would we be without boos?
0:13.0	Where would we be without good?
0:15.0	No, Timberd.
0:16.0	It's a rhetorical question, sir, but where would we be without books?
0:23.3	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.
0:30.5	What you're about to hear is a show I'm very proud of from the Bookworm Archives.
0:37.1	It goes back to 1998 when Tony Morrison,
0:43.7	the late and lamented Tony Morrison, announced that she would not be speaking about
0:52.2	her opinions of the movie that Oprah Winfrey produced and
0:58.3	Jonathan Demi directed based upon her novel Beloved. And it was perfectly understandable to me.
1:08.9	Oprah Winfrey was her friend. It's a book based on her novel. So I got in touch
1:15.9	with her and I said, I don't want to talk about the movie either. If you would prefer, I won't even
1:24.5	see it until after we speak. What I want to talk to you about, Tony, is what is there in a novel that will never make
1:36.3	it to the screen, that can't, that is beyond film's capacity to represent.
1:47.0	Tony talks to us with great intensity about the novel's focus on the problems of love,
1:59.0	in particular, the problems of love between the parents and the children
2:05.1	who will grow up into slavery, as represented in Beloved. It's what makes it one of Tony Morrison's
2:14.0	most powerful books. She was very generous in agreeing. In fact, she was thrilled
2:21.6	to talk about the book as it cannot be represented by a movie. She spoke to us at great length
2:33.1	from her home.
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