by Kate Chopin · L'Altra Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788412620153
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The Awakening, considered one of the precursor novels of the great literature of the southern United States, is the central story of this collection. It narrates the story of Edna Pontellier, a bourgeois woman who lives a comfortable and respectable life in 19th century New Orleans, dedicated to her husband and children. However, behind this apparently placid facade hides a woman determined to be free and independent. When a love passion drags her into a world full of new sensations, disturbing smells and walks full of possibilities, she does not hesitate to get carried away. This story about the sexual and spiritual awakening of a woman was branded as sordid and immoral when it was published in 1899, which caused Chopin to fall into literary ostracism. The variety of stories shows the enormous narrative talent of the writer, who set her stories and novels in rural Louisiana, but at the same time raised issues of absolute modernity, such as the questioning of the social hierarchy, the arbitrary distinctions of class, the culture of the southern United States, the institution of marriage, adultery, or inequality between men and women.
Kate Chopin was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. She is considered by scholars to have been a forerunner of American 20th-century feminist authors of Southern or Catholic background, such as Zelda Fitzgerald, and she is among the most frequently read and recognized writers of Louisiana Creole heritage. She is best known today for her 1899 novel The Awakening.
