| Awakening and Selected Stories Contributor(s): Chopin, Kate (Author) |
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ISBN: 0848804570 ISBN-13: 9780848804572 Publisher: Amereon Limited OUR PRICE: $27.67 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 1994 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 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. |