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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讀完《覺醒》,心底裏有點壓抑,更偏嚮凱特 肖邦一開始對於這部著作的命名《孤獨的靈魂》。 或許讀一遍著實不足以洞悉作者在塑造人物形象和敘述故事情節時的用心良苦,但我仍然想把內心的切實感受敘述一二。 女主人公艾德娜覺醒的過程在一個女人不以自己獨存而...
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...
評分覺醒是遼寜教育齣版社新萬有文庫中的一本,不到200頁。譯本也很好。譯者是楊瑛美。 作者凱特肖邦。這本書齣版於1899年。因為女性意識的覺醒 曾被禁止。我買大概是因為信任遼寜這套文庫和便宜的價格,因為在買之前我對她一無所知。 小說說的是美國南方的一位夫人...
評分 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...
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have nothing to desire
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“Good-by---because I love you.” He did not know; he did not understand. He would never understand.
評分Accompanied me so much subway time.
評分過程看的挺無聊的,結局很喜歡
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