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The Awakening

by Kate Chopin
language: english
Publisher: Vintage Publishing, March of 2011 ‧
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The Pontellier family are spending a hot, lazy holiday on the Gulf of Mexico. When an illicit summer romance awakens new ideas and longings in Edna, she can barely understand herself, and cannot hope for aid or acceptance in the stifling attitudes of Louisiana society.

The novel expresses women's diffuse desire for personal and social change * Guardian *

Chopin's slight, brittle and fierce novel became a classic and a cult, shocking readers with its candid and unsentimental portrait of marital infidelity. Though the subject has lost its power to outrage, the novel has not, it remains delicately bitter and acidly angry * Observer *

The Awakening is indeed a remarkable achievement, not least because of its rhapsodic ending * Independent *

Chopin cuts closer to the core of her heroine's feelings... The great power of The Awakening resides not in the answers it provides, but in the questions it exposes * Washington Post *

It doesn't seem so daring now, but it's an inspiring model of personal crusading. Written in lyrical, restrained prose, this is not only a historical document of writer ahead of her time, but an enduringly good read. * Scotsman *

The Awakening

by Kate Chopin

Property Description
ISBN: 9780099540779
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Release Date: March of 2011
Language: English
Dimensions: 130 x 196 x 16 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 240
Format: Book
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > Fiction
Books in English > Others
EAN: 9780099540779

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin, nascida O’Flaherty no Missouri, EUA, a 8 de fevereiro de 1850, foi uma importante romancista e contista americana de finais do século XIX. Com ascendência francesa pelo lado materno e irlandesa pelo lado paterno, foi educada pela bisavó, Victoire Charleville, que lhe ensinou francês, música e história.
Depois, frequentou um liceu católico Sacred heart Academy, onde teve aulas com a escritora Mary O’Meara, que se tornaria também sua mentora.
Em 1870, casou com Oscar Chopin e mudam-se de Nova Orleães para o Louisianna. Em 1890 publica o romance At Fault, em 1894 e 1897, os aclamados volumes de contos Bayou Folk e A Night in Acadie.
Considerada imoral e classificada como escandalosa, The Awakening – O Despertar, ditou o fim da sua carreira como escritora.
Mais de cinquenta anos depois, este livro tornar-se-ia numa obra de referência, considerada precursora do modernismo americano e do movimento feminista, e Kate Chopin seria aclamada como uma das escritoras americanas mais importantes de sempre, tendo influenciado o trabalho de Virginia Woolf e Doris Lessing.

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