The Awakening

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.

出版者:W. W. Norton & Company

作者:Kate Chopin

页数:336

出版时间:1994-1-14

价格:GBP 8.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780393960570

图书标签:KateChopin美国文学女性英文原版美国小说feminismchopin

The second edition of this important canonical text is again based in the 1899 edition. The "Criticism" section has been greatly expanded to include more feminist appraisals, and a chronology has been added.

读后感

今晚一口气读完《觉醒》这本书，原名为《孤独的灵魂》（A Solitary Soul）。在读之前并不知道还有这个如此喜欢的原名，就连作者是谁都不知道，对小说的背景也毫不了解。只是看着名字感觉还不错，页数也不是很多，应该可以在较短时间内读完，拿来练习一下速读应该还可以。没想到...  

醒来了，却还是困着 2008-01-06 00:33 读了本书，后天就要考试，建筑物理，围护结构的传热人工光源的特性，种种的，更教人觉得无聊，觉得烦琐，；索性丢开，来敲几个段落。 书名“觉醒”，故事也平常，二十九岁的Edna忽然觉得人生不该是那样活，不该是那么守在家里...  

心理活动太多，故事有点压抑，而且文笔也不太是我喜欢的风格。用词比较简单，篇幅不长（是不是长篇小说啊？篇幅这么短）就这俩点来说诚意推荐。总之，个人感觉是时代意义大于艺术价值。 kate chopin还写过短篇，有些还是很有意思的  

<The Awakening>写于1899年, 出版后因主题的尺度遭受监禁和批评, 直到作者去世几十年后才被认定为19世纪美国文学的重要一章. 书里有一个美丽的女人, 已婚, 成为丈夫和儿子的财产. 晒了一夏天太阳和遇到情人之后她决定不再昏头昏脑的活着. 是悲剧还是希望别人无法评判, 醒来的...  

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perhaps it is better to wake up after all....

再过了一遍，这版的优点在书中的法语基本都有脚注译文，后面还有时代背景、当时的评论和近年的研究。但是这本书从60年代被发掘出来到90年代出诺顿这版，可能时间跨度还是太短了，感觉所选的研究文章没有很出彩。

又欺负我Dover Thrift Edition！Ethan Frome都没找到哼！//好爱Chopin！语言太美了！【承认吧我就是对女性主题感兴趣……

一部典型的关于女人的小说。看得很抑郁。一个女人即便清醒了，意识到自我的价值与实现，却发现自己无路可寻，只得用自杀的方式摆脱社会舆论和现有生活的束缚，重获自由。悲哀...

*ENGL1028终于差不多几乎结课了 Edna算是生不逢时了啊