Awakening (Norton Library)

作者：Chopin, Kate/ Fisher, Laura R.

出版社：Norton

出版日期：2022.12.16

ISBN：9780393871401

書號：30264250

裝訂：平裝

定價：$331

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Awakening是美國作家凱特．蕭邦（Kate Chopin）於1899年發表的小說，被譽為美國女性主義文學的先驅之作。她寫出當時封閉保守的上流社會，女性在面對家庭、婚姻與社會教條的規範下，逐漸覺察內心渴望自由與自我認同的過程。

艾德娜‧龐帝利埃生活在路易斯安那上流社會，身為年輕妻子與母親，她謹守上流社會的分際與規矩，在一段夏季假期中，她和丈夫雷昂斯來到墨西哥灣的格蘭德艾爾(Grand Isle)渡假村度假，認識了羅伯特‧勒布朗，年輕、風趣且充滿熱情，彷彿打開了艾德娜內心的某個開關。

艾德娜回到家後依然心神不寧，她開始思考家庭與夫妻關係是否是她真心所渴望的？還是這個社會加諸於她身上的烙印？在她的心靈甦醒之後，艾德娜趁丈夫去紐約經商時搬出去，獨自生活，並一邊希望能與羅伯特再見面，但她破壞上流社會體制的行為已被揭露，也讓這段戀情最終走向不可收拾的境地…

本書初出版時因大膽挑戰傳統道德觀而飽受批評，甚至被諸多評論視為「不道德的情色作品」。但時至今日，凱特‧蕭邦被重新評價為美國早期女性主義小說家的先驅，她勇敢探索女性主體意識與性別角色，質疑傳統價值觀對女性自由的剝奪。她充滿自然主義式的細膩筆觸與深刻的心理描寫，使這部小說至今仍具高度文學價值與現代意義。

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作者介紹

Kate Chopin was born on February 8, 1850, to an affluent family in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1870, she moved with her husband to his native New Orleans. Chopin began her literary career at the age of thirty-six, as a recently widowed mother of six. From 1890 to 1897, Chopin published her first novel, At Fault, and nearly one hundred short stories, collected in Bayou Folk and A Night in Acadie. Chopin’s stories were widely read, appearing in leading magazines of the day. Her most famous novel, The Awakening, faced wide condemnation upon its release in 1899 for its morally ambivalent subject matter. It has since become recognized as an essential work of early feminist fiction. Kate Chopin died on August 22, 1904.

Laura R. Fisher is an associate professor of English at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is the author of Reading for Reform: The Social Work of Literature in the Progressive Era.

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