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The Awakening and Selected Stories
Kate Chopin
出版
Random House Publishing Group
, 2000-11-01
主題
Fiction / Classics
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
ISBN
0679641238
9780679641230
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=d1VFYtrb-ZkC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
The Awakening
shocked turn-of-the-century readers and reviewers with its treatment of sex and suicide. In a departure from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine's desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner, whom she meets on vacation. The power of sensuality, the delusion of ecstatic love, and the solitude that accompanies the trappings of middle- and upper-class convention are the themes of this now-classic novel. The book was influenced by French writers ranging from Flaubert to Maupassant, and can be seen as a precursor of the impressionistic, mood-driven novels of Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes. Variously called 'vulgar,' 'unhealthily introspective,' and 'morbid,' the book was neglected for several decades, not least because it was written by a 'regional' woman writer. This edition also includes selected stories from Kate Chopin's
Bayou Folk
and
A Night in Acadie,
and an introduction and notes by Nina Baym.