: Kate Chopin, Golden Deer Classics
: Awakening (Golden Deer Classics)
: Oregan Publishing
: 9782377872633
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: CHF 0.90
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: Essays, Feuilleton, Literaturkritik, Interviews
: English
The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers with its forthright treatment of sex and suicide. Departing 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 life are the themes of this now-classic novel. As Kaye Gibbons points out in her Introduction, Chopin"e,was writing American realism before most Americans could bear to hear that they were living it."e,