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The Awakening
Kate Chopin
其他書名
A Solitary Soul
出版Everyman's Library, 1992
主題Fiction / GeneralFiction / ClassicsFiction / LiteraryFiction / PsychologicalFiction / Family Life / Marriage & DivorceFiction / City LifeFiction / Feminist
ISBN18571513219781857151329
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=A4TpAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋The Awakening charts Edna Pontellier's journey of self-discovery. The time spent with a younger friend on a summer holiday on Grand Isle in Lousiana unlocks a feeling in her that she can't close away again. On returning to her family home in New Orleans, she starts to transition from unthinking housewife and mother into something freer and more confident, although this doesn't meet with the full approval of the society she's a part of. Kate Chopin had written a novel previously, but she was mostly known as a writer of Louisiana-set short stories. The Awakening, while keeping the setting, charted new territory with its themes of marital infidelity and less-than-perfect devotion of a mother to her children. The consequent critical reception was less than enthusiastic-hardly surprising given the prevailing moral atmosphere of the time-and her next novel was cancelled. The Awakening was rediscovered in the 1960s and is now regarded as an important early example of American feminist literature.