NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Here is the Nobel Prize winner in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades that "speaks to today’s social and political moment as directly as this morning’s headlines” (NPR). These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9/11, her Nobel lecture on the power of language, her searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., her heart-wrenching eulogy for James Baldwin. She looks deeply into the fault lines of culture and freedom: the foreigner, female empowerment, the press, money, “black matter(s),” human rights, the artist in society, the Afro-American presence in American literature. And she turns her incisive critical eye to her own work (The Bluest Eye, Sula, Tar Baby, Jazz, Beloved, Paradise) and that of others. An essential collection from an essential writer, The Source of Self-Regard shines with the literary elegance, intellectual prowess, spiritual depth, and moral compass that have made Toni Morrison our most cherished and enduring voice.

トニ・モリスンが遺した言葉は、単なる評論を超えた魂の地図です。人種や自由というテーマを言語の光で照らし、自作を解体して社会の亀裂を抉る鋭い知性は、読者の自尊心の源を激しく揺さぶります。歴史の重みと祈りが同居する、文学的至宝と呼ぶに相応しい一冊です。 映像が視覚的に思想を補完する一方、本書は言葉の重力で直接心に響きます。映像が物語を際立たせるのに対し、テキストは著者の深い吐息を雄弁に伝えます。このシナジーにより彼女の描いた壮大な宇宙はより立体的に輝き、私たちの生を導く羅針盤となるでしょう。