It is the late 1800s, and Edna Pontellier is a wealthy married woman vacationing with her family in Grand Isle, a popular resort island frequented by the high society of New Orleans. Her husband is dedicated to his work, leaving Edna to spend much of her days with a married Creole woman named Adele Ratignolle whose unreserved manner begins to prompt Edna to explore her own repressed emotions and desires. Her “awakening” continues when she meets Robert Lebrun, a handsome man whose attention...

El Despertar de Kate Chopin es un análisis profundo de la identidad femenina, la autonomía y los confines de las normas sociales en la América del siglo XIX. A través de la historia de Edna Pontellier, la novela examina cómo los roles tradicionales de género y las expectativas culturales pueden reprimir los deseos individuales y el anhelo de libertad personal. Chopin desafía las convenciones de su época al presentar una protagonista que lucha por definirse...

A story of awakening that changed American literature forever. The Awakening and its accompanying short fiction by Kate Chopin explore themes of identity, independence, love, and societal expectation with bold honesty and emotional depth. At the heart of this collection is The Awakening, a groundbreaking novel that follows Edna Pontellier's journey toward self-discovery in a world that demands conformity. Alongside it, Chopin's short stories offer intimate portraits of women navigating des...

Con straordinaria sensibilità Kate Chopin ricostruisce in un questo romanzo, diventato ormai un classico della letteratura mondiale, il cammino di liberazione di una giovane donna alle prese con il conformismo della società. Siamo in Louisiana, in uno degli stabilimenti balneari dove le famiglie e i giovani rampolli della buona società trascorrono le vacanze. È un mondo statico, ossessionato da rigide convenzioni. Così lo vede Edna Pontellier, moglie di un uomo d'affari di New Orleans e ma...

'The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude'When 'The Awakening' was first published in 1899, charges of sordidness and immorality seemed to consign it into obscurity and irreparably damage its author's reputation. But a century after her death, it is widely regarded as Kate Chopin's great achievement. Through careful, subtle changes of style, Chopin shows the tra...

Edna Pontellier passa as férias com a família nos chalés de praia alugados dos Lebrun, perto de Nova Orleans, onde moram. Os dias escorrem entre chás na varanda, agradáveis caminhadas na praia acompanhada de outros hóspedes, um olhar desatento para as crianças que são seguidas pelas criadas. Às noites, seu marido Léonce Pontellier vai ao clube encontrar outros maridos para jogar cartas. Entre os interlocutores de Edna está o jovem Robert Lebrun, cuja companhia lhe é cada vez mais cara à me...

Mrs. Louise Mallard, afflicted with a heart condition, reflects on the death of her husband from the safety of her locked room. Originally published in Vogue magazine, “The Story of an Hour” was retitled as “The Dream of an Hour,” when it was published amid much controversy under its new title a year later in St. Louis Life. “The Story of an Hour” was adapted to film in The Joy That Kills by director Tina Rathbone, which was part of a PBS anthology called America...

Yirmi yedi yaşındaki Edna Pontellier varlıklı bir adamla evli, iki çocuk annesi, güzel bir kadındır. Ailesiyle yaz aylarını geçirmek için gittikleri tatil beldesinde kendisine ayırdığı vakit, denizle kurduğu ilişki ona yeni ufuklar açar. Öncelikle bir birey olarak kendini keşfetmeye yönelen Edna, bunu yaparken toplum tarafından belirlenmiş kadınlık ve annelik rollerini, evliliği sorgular.Kimlik, toplum, aidiyet ve özgürlük kavramlarını, bir kadının tinsel ve cinsel farkındalığa eri...

'Introducing this release of The Awakening has given me an opportunity to re-experience one of my life's important books . . . I still marvel at Chopin's realism, her impatience with conventional trappings, her arresting honesty' BARBARA KINGSOLVER'Incisive, brilliant and haunting' MAGGIE O'FARRELLOver one long, languid summer Edna Pontellier, fettered by marriage and motherhood, becomes acquainted with Robert Lebrun. As the days s...

Edna Pontellier is a wife, a mother, and a member of the Presbyterian Church, but has never felt comfortable being defined by any of these roles. Edna yearns for freedom, independence, and self-fulfillment—all of which seem antithetical to the life she has fallen into. When she departs to Grand Isle with her husband and children for a vacation, Edna’s quiet dissatisfaction becomes more problematic, as she gets a glimpse of what life free from obligation and social constraints could be like...

Kate Chopin's groundbreaking novel of early feminism set against the evocative backdrop of turn-of-the-century New OrleansEdna Pontellier is trapped. By her marriage, by her responsibilities to two young sons, by the expectations of Creole society. When she falls in love with the charming and flirtatious Robert Lebrun during a summer on the Louisiana coast, Edna awakens to a new sense of herself, and to the possibility of true independence. Mademoiselle Reisz, a loc...

El despertar, considerada una de les novel·les precursores de la gran literatura del sud dels Estats Units, és el relat central d'aquest recull i narra la història d'Edna Pontellier, una dona de classe burgesa que du una vida còmoda i respectable a la Nova Orleans del segle XIX, dedicada al marit, els fills i els actes socials. Però darrere d'aquesta façana aparentment plàcida s'hi amaga una dona decidida a ser lliure i independent i, quan una passió amorosa l'arrossega a un món ple de sen...