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.
"She grew daring and reckless. Overestimating her strength. She wanted to swim far out. Where no woman had swum before."
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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...
評分這是一部在美國文學史上被“重新發現”的經典。齣版於1899年,在“cult of womenhood”的時代,《覺醒》所受關注甚少,即便有,也是負麵的評價。隻在20世紀70年代女性主義盛行時,在女性主義者試圖重新發現被忽略的女性作傢及其作品、重建文學傳統和經典的努力中,《覺醒》被經...
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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hate it bullshitting about the nonsense controlled-by-sth on the beach. love it when it describes how Edna feels facing Robert. "you don't understand."
評分hate it bullshitting about the nonsense controlled-by-sth on the beach. love it when it describes how Edna feels facing Robert. "you don't understand."
評分手賤先看後麵也有好處,我如此悲哀地看著女權主義一步步死亡。僅僅為瞭gangrene passion?edina遊得太遠瞭。那片海蠱惑她遊瞭這麼遠,早已無法迴頭,卻怎麼也找不到海的那一頭。her strength was gone.婦女完全free以後又該如何?覺醒以後路在何方?c
評分Okay…這種書看得少,真心沒猜到結局
評分結尾很帶感。你愛的人也不會理解你呀,草原和海洋沒有盡頭。
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