The Awakening-觉醒-孤独的灵魂

作者：Chopin Kate

书名：The Awakening《觉醒》，原名《孤独的灵魂》

中文简介：《觉醒》，原名《孤独的灵魂》（A Solitary Soul），是凯特·肖邦所著的小说，1899年出版。小说背景设在19世纪末的新奥尔良和南路易斯安那州沿岸地带，剧情以埃德娜·庞德烈为中心，记叙了她在19世纪末充满传统女性与母性价值观的社会环境下，努力应对自身反传统的挣扎。小说是第一部关注女性问题而不自高自傲的作品，被认为是早期女性主义的里程碑，并继续在当代读者与评论界中产生不同的反响。

英文简介：When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female marital infidelity. Audiences accustomed to the pieties of late Victorian romantic fiction were taken aback by Chopin's daring portrayal of a woman trapped in a stifling marriage, who seeks and finds passionate physical love outside the confines of her domestic situation.

Aside from its unusually frank treatment of a then-controversial subject, the novel is widely admired today for its literary qualities. Edmund Wilson characterized it as a work "quite uninhibited and beautifully written, which anticipates D. H. Lawrence in its treatment of infidelity." Although the theme of marital infidelity no longer shocks, few novels have plumbed the psychology of a woman involved in an illicit relationship with the perception, artistry, and honesty that Kate Chopin brought to The Awakening.