Kate Chopin

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When first published in 1899, "The Awakening" shocked readers with its honest treatment of female marital infidelity. Audiences accustomed to the pieties of late Victorian romantic fiction were taken aback by Chopin's daring portrayal of a woman trapped in a stifling marriage, who seeks and finds passionate physical love outside the straitened confines of her domestic situation. Aside from its unusually frank treatment of a then-controversial subject, the novel is widely admired today for its literary qualities. Edmund Wilson characterized it as a work "quite uninhibited and beautifully written, which anticipates D. H. Lawrence in its treatment of infidelity." Although the theme of marital infidelity no longer shocks, few novels have plumbed the psychology of a woman involved in an illicit relationship with the perception, artistry, and honesty that Kate Chopin brought to "The Awakening." Now available in this inexpensive edition, it offers a powerful and provocative reading experience to modern readers. Unabridged Dover (1993) republication of the work first published by Herbert S. Stone & Co., Chicago, 1899.

The Awakening

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The Awakening by Kate Chopin

The Awakening, novel by Kate Chopin firts was published in 1899. When first published, the novel was considered controversial because of its frank treatment of both adulterous love between a married woman, Edna Pontellier, and an unmarried younger man, Robert Lebrun, and the subject of female sexuality. In fact, it was initially met with condemnation and outrage, forcing its author into financial crisis and literary obscurity.Coming back from this apparent literary death-at-birth, the effects of this novel live on, inveterate and relentless. Now widely read, The Awakening is critically acclaimed as an American version of Madame Bovary. The Awakening by Kate Chopin show us what it mean to "awaken" into a better understanding of one's position. The novel invites us to wonder if it might not be better to carry on "sleeping" through life, as well as dealing with the complicated ways in which different kinds of "production" and "destruction" merge with one another. Chopin's subject matter and observations are engrossing and, in many respects, ahead of their time. But what is most remarkable about The Awakening is the way in which it forces us to think about the very notion of time, of being ahead or outside of one's time, and of the time of reading. Reading, like awakening, is identified with a strange present; here the reader is left uncertain whether the awakening is still happening or, perhaps, has not yet begun.

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