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...
評分醒來瞭,卻還是睏著 2008-01-06 00:33 讀瞭本書,後天就要考試,建築物理,圍護結構的傳熱人工光源的特性,種種的,更教人覺得無聊,覺得煩瑣,;索性丟開,來敲幾個段落。 書名“覺醒”,故事也平常,二十九歲的Edna忽然覺得人生不該是那樣活,不該是那麼守在傢裏...
評分醒來瞭,卻還是睏著 2008-01-06 00:33 讀瞭本書,後天就要考試,建築物理,圍護結構的傳熱人工光源的特性,種種的,更教人覺得無聊,覺得煩瑣,;索性丟開,來敲幾個段落。 書名“覺醒”,故事也平常,二十九歲的Edna忽然覺得人生不該是那樣活,不該是那麼守在傢裏...
評分 評分在《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...
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贊同有些豆友的觀點,Edna不太像覺醒,倒像是confused.
評分have nothing to desire
評分看的時候正好聽著凱拉版的安娜卡列尼娜原聲帶,竟然莫名很搭
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評分草草算看完瞭吧。這種書看得總是很絕望。無力。
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