The Awakening and Selected Stories

基本信息

Edited by:Sandra M. Gilbert

Format:Paperback / softback 288 pages

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint:Penguin Classics

ISBN:9780142437322

Published:24 Apr 2003

Weight:220g

Dimensions:197 x 130 x 17 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

本书收录凯特·肖邦经典文学作品《觉醒》以及其他选集作品，包括Emancipation，At the 'cadian Ball和Désiree's baby。

《觉醒》

艾德娜原本置身于法国式的上流社会中，生活的目的只有相夫教子、宴款宾客。在这样的一个社会里，女人的身份是因男人而定位；女人没有自我，而只是某人的女儿、姊妹、妻子、母亲，或情妇。这年夏天，艾德娜全家到新奥尔良南方约五十英里外的格蓝岛度假，邂逅劳伯特，终于燃起自我遥意识，不愿意再因循先生及社会的要求而扮演别人设定的角色。她勇敢的脱离常轨，一心去发展自己的艺术（绘画）潜能，追求自由、独立。

The Awakening and Selected Stories is Kate Chopin's groundbreaking depiction of a woman who dares to defy the expectations of society in the pursuit of her desire, edited with an introduction by Sandra M. Gilbert in Penguin Classics.

When 'The Awakening' was first published in 1899, charges of sordidness and immorality seemed to consign it into obscurity and irreparably damage its author's reputation. But a century after her death, it is widely regarded as Kate Chopin's great achievement. Through careful, subtle changes of style, Chopin shows the transformation of Edna Pontellier, a young wife and mother, who - with tragic consequences - refuses to be caged by married and domestic life, and claims for herself moral and erotic freedom.

In her introduction, Sandra M. Gilbert considers the issues explored in the novel and the stories collected here (including 'Emancipation', 'At the 'cadian Ball', and 'Désiree's baby') from their growth out of the feminist literary tradition of the nineteenth century, to their place among other concerns of fin de siècle writers in America and Europe, to their impact on contemporary feminist writing.

作者简介

凯特·萧邦，又名凯特肖邦，美国女作家，本名凯萨琳·欧福拉赫蒂（Katherine O'Flaherty）。

自1889年至1902年间，她撰写供成人和孩童阅读的短篇小说，刊载于《大西洋月刊》、《时髦》、《世纪》和《哈伯青年手册》等杂志。主要作品为《河口人们》（1894年）和《阿卡迪亚之夜》（1897年）两部短篇小说集。重要的短篇小说包含《黛泽蕾的婴孩》，其内容为南北战争前路州境内异族通婚的故事。另有《一小时的故事》和《暴风》。

Katherine O'Flaherty (1850 - 1904), known by her married name Kate Chopin, was an American author of short stories and novels. In 1899, her second novel, The Awakening, was published to much outrage and harsh criticism based upon moral, rather than literary, standards.