Talk:Beloved (novel)

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[edit] Not very detailed analysis

What is there on Beloved is simple not avery detailed, or in places good, analysis. Many key points needed to understand the work are missing, and some information is misleading - for example the sentence that Sethe does not bother with her ther children anymore is simply wrong, as only Denver is still in the house anyway. Otherwise, some characters as her two sons are negleted completly. Please someone, sort this out!

[edit] Beloved's status

An anon editor just changed the part about Beloved being Sethe's daughter to "it remains vague whether" Beloved is Sethe's daughter. I reverted it; I thought it was quite clear who Beloved was, to Sethe, to Denver, to Paul, and to the folks who come and perform the exorcism. | Klaw ¡digame!

[edit] Nobel prize?

It mention's Beloved as a pulitzer prize winner - I was under the impression that Toni Morrisson had received a nobel prize in literature for Beloved. My edition certainly mentions the nobel prize on the cover.

Morrison won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, six years after Beloved was published. The official Nobel website states that she was a recipient because she is one "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality;" [1] so Beloved is one of the many reasons she was honored, but not the only reason. The Nobel prize recognizes an author's full body of work, not just one piece of it. Maria 14:37, 11 January 2007 (UTC)