Kate Chopin, was born Katherine O'Flaherty in St. Louis on Feburary8,1851, of a prosperous Irish-born merchant father and an aristocratic Creole mother. She studied piano, wrote poetry, and read Dickens, Austen, Goethe, de Stael, and the Brontes. Despite her free spirit--she was once nicknamed the "littlest rebel" for yanking down a Union flag--Kate grew to be a leading social belle, admired for her wit and beauty.
In 1870 she married Oscar Chopin. Matrimony did not quell her independence; she dressed unconventionally, took long unchaperoned walks, and smoked cigarettes. In their twelve years of married life, she bore six children, and upon Oscar's sudden death in 1882 she took over the management of the Chopin family plantation in Natchitoches, Louisana. She turned seriously to writing shortly thereafter, publishing stories in Vogue and Atlantic Monthly. She wrote a novel, At Fault(1890), Bayou Folk, a collection of stories(1894), A Night in Acadie, a second collection (1897), and her masterpiece The Awakening(1899), which aroused a national scandal for its "indecency." Banned by libraries, it even prevented her admission into the St. Louis Fine Arts Club--even though Kate Chopin was famous for her literary salon, which attracted distinguished artists and writers from all over the country.
Always sensitive to criticism, Chopin was devastated by the furor that surrounded the publication of The Awakening, and its harsh reception ultimately caused her to stop writing. When she died in 1904, she had been denied the recognition she desperately wanted and richly deserved.
"This seems to me a higher order of feminism than repeating the story of woman as victim... Kate Chopin gives her female protagonist the central role, normally reserved for Man, in a meditation on identity and culture, consciousness and art." -- From the introduction by Marilynne Robinson.
First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, The Awakening has been hailed as an early vision of woman's emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman's abandonment of her family, her seduction, and her awakening to desires and passions that threated to consumer her. Originally entitled "A Solitary Soul," this portrait of twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier is a landmark in American fiction, rooted firmly in the romantic tradition of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. Here, a woman in search of self-discovery turns away from convention and society, and toward the primal, from convention and society, and toward the primal, irresistibly attracted to nature and the sensesThe Awakening, Kate Chopin's last novel, has been praised by Edmund Wilson as "beautifully written." And Willa Cather described its style as "exquisite," "sensitive," and "iridescent." This edition of The Awakening also includes a selection of short stories by Kate Chopin.
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在《覺醒》的第三章中,受到丈夫莫名其妙的責難後,因為心中“一股難以言喻的抑鬱之感”,使艾德娜“眼淚來得太凶,睡袍的袖子已經濕透,無法再擦拭更多的淚水瞭”。至第十七章,迴到漫步大道上的好宅後,艾德娜不再“唯夫是從”,甚至“脫下結婚戒指,丟到地毯上”。雖然其後...
評分心理活動太多,故事有點壓抑,而且文筆也不太是我喜歡的風格。用詞比較簡單,篇幅不長(是不是長篇小說啊?篇幅這麼短)就這倆點來說誠意推薦。總之,個人感覺是時代意義大於藝術價值。 kate chopin還寫過短篇,有些還是很有意思的
評分<The Awakening>寫於1899年, 齣版後因主題的尺度遭受監禁和批評, 直到作者去世幾十年後纔被認定為19世紀美國文學的重要一章. 書裏有一個美麗的女人, 已婚, 成為丈夫和兒子的財産. 曬瞭一夏天太陽和遇到情人之後她決定不再昏頭昏腦的活著. 是悲劇還是希望彆人無法評判, 醒來的...
評分心理活動太多,故事有點壓抑,而且文筆也不太是我喜歡的風格。用詞比較簡單,篇幅不長(是不是長篇小說啊?篇幅這麼短)就這倆點來說誠意推薦。總之,個人感覺是時代意義大於藝術價值。 kate chopin還寫過短篇,有些還是很有意思的
評分圖書標籤: 美國文學 女性主義 KateChopin 英文原版 小說 文學 女性 literature
Accompanied me so much subway time.
評分女權的第一本原版讀物,心理描寫贊。感動程度一般
評分用語精美
評分難得美國文學課的書比較能看得下去 喜歡前半部分 語言很美 細節到位 但並沒有讀到“覺醒” 反而是一個被想象、投射所束縛的過程
評分贊同有些豆友的觀點,Edna不太像覺醒,倒像是confused.
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