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THE AWAKENING - KATE CHOPIN KARTONIERT (TB)

First published in 1899  this beautiful  brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that
it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired  The Awakening has been
hailed as an early vision of woman's emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman's
abandonment of her family  her seduction  and her awakening to desires and passions that
threated to consumer her. Originally entitled A Solitary Soul  this portrait of
twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier is a landmark in American fiction  rooted firmly in the
romantic tradition of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. Here  a woman in search of
self-discovery turns away from convention and society  and toward the primal  from convention
and society  and toward the primal  irresistibly attracted to nature and the sensesThe
Awakening  Kate Chopin's last novel  has been praised by Edmund Wilson as beautifully written.
And Willa Cather described its style as exquisite  sensitive  and iridescent. This edition of
The Awakening also includes a selection of short stories by Kate Chopin.This seems to me a
higher order of feminism than repeating the story of woman as victim... Kate Chopin gives her
female protagonist the central role  normally reserved for Man  in a meditation on identity and
culture  consciousness and art. -- From the introduction by Marilynne Robinson.

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