The Awakening - Chopin, Kate

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Résumé :
A late nineteenth-century American novel examining the interior life of Edna Pontellier within the social framework of the Gulf Coast. First published in 1899, The Awakening traces Edna's gradual movement away from the expectations of marriage, motherhood, and social conformity, toward a more self-directed, though uncertain, sense of identity. Set primarily in Louisiana, the novel situates its central figure within a carefully observed domestic and social environment, where shifts in perception and feeling carry greater weight than external action. Chopin's prose is controlled and deliberate, allowing the narrative to unfold through moments of recognition, withdrawal, and change rather than overt dramatic incident. Regarded as a significant work in the development of modern American fiction, The Awakening has been read in relation to questions of autonomy, constraint, and the limits imposed by social convention. This edition presents the original text in a clear and stable format for contemporary reading....

Biographie:
Kate Chopin (1850-1904) was an American writer associated with late nineteenth-century regional and literary fiction. Her work often addresses the constraints of social expectation and the inner lives of her characters, with The Awakening emerging as her most widely studied novel....

Sommaire:
Kate Chopin was born Catherine O'Flaherty in St. Louis in 1850. Her father died when she was young, and she was raised in a home with her mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, all widows. She married Oscar Chopin, a cotton merchant, but after having six children, she too was left a widow. Kate Chopin also wrote the novel, At Fault, and over 100 short stories including, The Story of an Hour, The Storm, and D?sir?e's Baby. She is known for her stories that feature southern local color and sensitive, intelligent women in the 1890s....