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.
发表于2024-11-02
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The Awakening, as the authoress' last masterpiece, also sharing one fate with Hardy's last one, was finally recognized and even praised as "beautifully written" by Edmund Wilson, and "exquisite" and "sensitive" by Willa Cather. However, the praised didn't live as long as Hardy, who finally outlived the thrusts and cuts.
大学4年里,唯一认真读过的一本原文小说。貌似是大三去旁听张老师给硕士上的美国文学,偶然发现这本小书。当时一直很着迷女性意识的觉醒。书的结尾,她在海水里沉下去,是真的自由了吗?那个时候,女性独立不可能彻底。
评分"I would give up the unessential, but I would never sacrifice myself for my children." 'How strange and awful it seemed to stand naked under the sky! How delicious!'
评分"I would give up the unessential, but I would never sacrifice myself for my children." 'How strange and awful it seemed to stand naked under the sky! How delicious!'
评分诗一样美丽的文字,那些流畅的句子和细腻的描写让阅读变成享受。
评分鄙人第二本英文原著终于读完了……
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