阳春三月，万物复苏，“三八”国际妇女节即将到来。在这满含敬意与礼赞的三月，我们将陆续推出西方女作家经典作品系列品读活动，让您在纸墨书香间寻觅女性的坚韧与智慧。本期为大家推介美国女作家凯特·肖邦的代表作《觉醒》，愿每一位女性读者在阅读中放松身心、汲取力量，绽放独属于自己的芳华。谨向广大女同胞致以诚挚敬意！

作品简介

《觉醒》是美国作家凯特·肖邦于1899年出版的长篇小说，讲述了主人公埃德娜·庞德烈在婚姻禁锢中逐步自我觉醒的故事。作品以细腻的心理刻画与象征手法，展现了个体自由与社会规训之间的冲突，反映了女性反抗传统桎梏、追求人格独立、自我意识觉醒的深刻社会议题。该作问世初期曾饱受争议，如今已成为美国文学的经典之作。

 

作者简介

凯特·肖邦（Kate Chopin，1851-1904），美国女作家。出生于密苏里州圣路易市，年幼丧父，受母亲和曾祖母的影响，爱好阅读，就读于圣路易斯天主教会圣心学院。1869年与奥斯卡·肖邦成婚。十九世纪九十年代后期开始文学创作，代表作《觉醒》被誉为女性主义文学经典。1904年因中风逝世。

 

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It was then past midnight. The cottages were all dark. A single faint light gleamed out from the hallway of the house. There was no sound abroad except the hooting of an old owl in the top of a water-oak, and the everlasting voice of the sea, that was not uplifted at that soft hour. It broke like a mournful lullaby upon the night.

The tears came so fast to Mrs. Pontellier’s eyes that the damp sleeve of her peignoir no longer served to dry them. She was holding the back of her chair with one hand; her loose sleeve had slipped almost to the shoulder of her uplifted arm. Turning, she thrust her face, steaming and wet, into the bend of her arm, and she went on crying there, not caring any longer to dry her face, her eyes, her arms. She could not have told why she was crying. Such experiences as the foregoing were not uncommon in her married life. They seemed never before to have weighed much against the abundance of her husband’s kindness and a uniform devotion which had come to be tacit and self-understood.

An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish. It was like a shadow, like a mist passing across her soul’s summer day. It was strange and unfamiliar; it was a mood. She did not sit there inwardly upbraiding her husband, lamenting at Fate, which had directed her footsteps to the path which they had taken. She was just having a good cry all to herself. The mosquitoes made merry over her, biting her firm, round arms and nipping at her bare insteps.

 

词汇学习

• cottage  n. 村舍，小屋；小别墅
• damp  adj. 有湿气的；潮湿的
• thrust  v. 刺，戳，插入

     n. 推力；刺，戳，插入

• weigh  v. 称……重量，称；重达；考虑，权衡
• generate  vt. 产生，发生

（单词注释来自有道词典）

“作家访谈”是美国文学杂志《巴黎评论》（Paris Review）最持久、最著名的特色栏目之一。自1953年创刊号刊登E. M. 福斯特访谈至今，《巴黎评论》持续推出当代最伟大作家的长篇访谈。《女性作家访谈》是《巴黎评论》编辑部自2017年起推出的特辑，迄今为止已出版两辑。本书作为《巴黎评论》出版史上首个女性作家访谈特辑，收录了十六位女性作家的访谈，既可以看作“对话中的散文”，亦是极具水准的对写作技术的探讨，同时展现女性作家生活中那些细微却折射性格的细节。

A Companion to the American Novel provides a comprehensive treatment of the development of the novel in the United States from its emergency in the eighteenth century to the present. Through a series of 38 essays written by a distinguished cast of literary scholars, the book provides a broad historical overview of the nature and development of the novel; perceptive studies of the crucial genres, topics, and traditions that define the literary form; and insightful analyses of 16 of the most important works of American fiction. With its in-depth coverage and wealth of insights, this book is the most valuable single-volume examination of this major literary form available today.

 

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