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.
我不知道该如何评论Edna这个女性,正如首页上有读者写到,醒了却还是困着的,所以呢,与其这样折磨自己,为什么不直接困顿着算了。 Edna的觉醒在我们现在看来完全是应该的,在父权社会下压制的女性开始慢慢的苏醒,意识到自己原来只是被丈夫视作了一个附属品,仅...
评分这是一部在美国文学史上被“重新发现”的经典。出版于1899年,在“cult of womenhood”的时代,《觉醒》所受关注甚少,即便有,也是负面的评价。只在20世纪70年代女性主义盛行时,在女性主义者试图重新发现被忽略的女性作家及其作品、重建文学传统和经典的努力中,《觉醒》被经...
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。
评分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...
评分越往后越引人入胜,觉得Edna的觉醒其实是一个逐渐感受到痛苦的过程。
评分再过了一遍,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。
评分我觉得Edna的想法很前卫,同时也很自私,同时Robert看似开放其实迂腐。在这里没有一个角色是完美的。但是看到Edna觉醒的过程,一步一步,慢慢摧毁自己建立的城堡,再建立起自己的巢穴,最后再一步步走向大海。一切好像很突然,实则一切结局在开头便已经注定了。
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