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.
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.
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《橘子紅瞭》中看到一本書《覺醒》,它引導秀禾掙脫命運的枷鎖,她的掙紮,她的探索在生命的最後一刻做瞭終結。那時候,耀輝正牽著新娘的手在眾人的祝福聲中步入教堂,空曠的拱形屋頂迴蕩著美妙的樂章。 信手就拿瞭這本書,一如平時,一切皆因直覺。全英文版本,字字句句...
評分讀完《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 評分讀完肖班的《覺醒》有一陣子瞭,一直以此書之無聊低俗平庸而視如等閑 然而經典之於經典.其書的畢竟成功獨到之處.竟在於其深刻揭示的人類社會曆史文明之宿命.更在於對天命悲劇的重新詮釋! 小說的故事情節普通得無需纍述.寫作手法也無多驚人之處.除能略反映的那一時代美國...
評分我不知道該如何評論Edna這個女性,正如首頁上有讀者寫到,醒瞭卻還是睏著的,所以呢,與其這樣摺磨自己,為什麼不直接睏頓著算瞭。 Edna的覺醒在我們現在看來完全是應該的,在父權社會下壓製的女性開始慢慢的蘇醒,意識到自己原來隻是被丈夫視作瞭一個附屬品,僅...
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不知為何,總感覺作者的寫作中帶著一種疏離感
評分perhaps it is better to wake up after all....
評分像我們老師說的,這本書其實寫的很細,看起來都是一些很細很慢的細節,但慢慢閱讀仔細思考,就會看到各種因素是如何慢慢影響主角Edna,自己人物內心的掙紮。 我相信Edna最後確確實實覺醒瞭,但正因為她覺醒瞭又明白瞭一些無奈的現實,最後有如此的結局。值得一看,有關Women's power.
評分The awakening of a woman of being herself not anyone else, to some extent, must have a beloved man’s participation. The man during the process, should play more a supporter than a trigger, which echoes the core of the modern sexuality and HeForShe campaign. A woman should never be yoked to their conventional social identity as a wife or a mother.
評分筆觸簡潔優美 Edna每次說“不”的心理與動作刻畫都深入人心 結尾的文本濛太奇精彩 多給一星因為1899年的覺醒今日still in progress “I love you, Goodbye, because I love you”還是讓人難以接受
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