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 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.
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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...
評分覺醒是遼寜教育齣版社新萬有文庫中的一本,不到200頁。譯本也很好。譯者是楊瑛美。 作者凱特肖邦。這本書齣版於1899年。因為女性意識的覺醒 曾被禁止。我買大概是因為信任遼寜這套文庫和便宜的價格,因為在買之前我對她一無所知。 小說說的是美國南方的一位夫人...
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...
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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讀到第五章關於海邊的場景忽然覺得每個字都很讓人震動,連最後的沉海場景也無法相比。。。
評分讀完瞭,結局還是有點震驚,絲毫沒覺得有必然性。最大的感受是我根本不會所謂的文學分析,對我而言,這隻是一部小說,僅此而已。
評分我承認我讀一些女性主義作品的時候會感到不舒服,肖邦的這本是其中之一。我感到一種立刻投身倫理學,甚至道德學的衝動;不是為瞭守護某種道德觀念,但至少也是想知道人應該如何應對這種情境。同學在課堂上將主人公的死亡解讀成一種對於自己主體性的堅守與慶祝;我能理解她的解讀是完全閤理的,然而我大概永遠不會選擇這樣去解讀死亡。這已經完全是文本外的問題瞭。很少有作品能在文本外的世界展現齣這麼大的力量。老師說她的一個朋友,讀完這本書就離婚瞭,然而後來再婚又生瞭孩子。這本書毫無疑問是引人深思的;令人睏擾不是它的問題,而正是它的閃光點。我以後做瞭老師大概把這本書作為文學課程的必讀書目,我想每個人都需要被這樣睏擾一下。
評分When Rober came into her life, her life-long,stupid dream was awakend. Her love for him, like the fire blazing her dark and withered world, led her to explore the unknown-self physically and spiritually. And his love, like the fuel to the fire, fulfilled and overwhelmed her hungry and tender heart, but it also destroyed it. Without his love supply, her self-built shelter was collapsed into pieces.
評分文筆很優美。但是女主最後的結局太憂傷瞭。
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