Kate Chopin (1851–1904)
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Kate Chopin was born Katherine O'Flaherty in St. Louis, Missouri, on February 8, 1851. Although she was brought up in a wealthy and socially elite Catholic family, Chopin's childhood was marred by tragedies. Her father was killed in a train accident when Chopin was just four years old, and in the mostra altro following years she also lost her older brother, great-grandmother, and half-brother. In 1870, at the age of 19, she married Oscar Chopin, the son of a wealthy cotton-growing family in Louisiana. The couple had seven children together, five boys and two girls, before Oscar died of swamp fever in 1883. The following year, Chopin packed up her family and moved back to St. Louis to be with her mother, who died just a year later. To support herself and her family, Chopin started to write. Her first novel, At Fault, was published in 1890. Her most famous work, The Awakening, inspired by a real-life New Orleans woman who committed adultery, was published in 1899. The book explores the social and psychological consequences of a woman caught in an unhappy marriage in 19th century America, is now considered a classic of the feminist movement and caused such an uproar in the community that Chopin almost entirely gave up writing. Chopin did try her hand at a few short stories, most of which were not even published. Chopin died on August 22, 1904, of a brain hemorrhage, after collapsing at the World's Fair just two days before. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Kate Chopin
The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin (Enriched Classics) (2004) 441 copie, 2 recensioni
Kate Chopin: Complete Novels and Stories: At Fault / Bayou Folk / A Night in Acadie / The Awakening / Uncollected… (2002) 350 copie, 2 recensioni
The Awakening and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics) {33 stories} (2000) 326 copie, 4 recensioni
Three Classics by American Women: The Awakening; Ethan Frome; O Pioneers! (1990) 25 copie, 1 recensione
British Mystery Megapack Volume 4: The Secret Adversary, Tales of Chinatown, At The Villa Rose, Egyptian Cigarette, A… (2014) 11 copie
Kate Chopin: Complete Collection of Works with analysis and historical background (Annotated and Illustrated)… (2013) 8 copie
Il sogno di un᾽ora 3 copie
Kate Chopin's Collected Works: At Fault, Bayou Folk, Juanita, Lilacs, The Kiss, Her Letters, A Family Affair, A… (2013) 3 copie
At the 'Cadian Ball 3 copie
Kate Chopin: The Complete Novels and Stories (The Greatest Writers of All Time Book 22) (2016) 2 copie
The Awakening Cane Maggie : A Girl of the Streets Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Norton Critical Editions Ser) (1999) 2 copie
A História de uma Hora e Outros Contos (Coleção Folha Inglês Com Clássicos Da Literatura, #24) 2 copie
Short Fiction 2 copie
O Beijo 2 copie
Nessun titolo 2 copie
Meias de Seda 1 copia
Athénaïse (texto bilingüe) 1 copia
“The ‘Cadian Ball” 1 copia
Works by Kate Chopin: Novels by Kate Chopin, Short Stories by Kate Chopin, Desiree's Baby, the Awakening, the… (2010) 1 copia
“Lilacs” 1 copia
Charlie; and other stories 1 copia
The Awakening & Other Short Stories: Kate Chopin (Short Stories, Classics, Literature) [Annotated] (2021) 1 copia
Chopin, Kate Archive 1 copia
En kvinde vågner 1 copia
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Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 938 copie, 7 recensioni
The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Tradition in English (1985) — Collaboratore — 866 copie
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps (2009) — Collaboratore — 264 copie, 3 recensioni
Daughters of Decadence: Women Writers of the Fin-de-Siècle (1993) — Collaboratore — 186 copie, 2 recensioni
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Collaboratore — 150 copie, 1 recensione
Norton Introduction to the Short Novel (1982) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 100 copie, 1 recensione
Two Friends and Other 19th-century American Lesbian Stories (1994) — Collaboratore — 99 copie, 1 recensione
In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe: Classic Tales of Horror, 1816-1914 (2015) — Collaboratore — 91 copie, 1 recensione
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Collaboratore — 69 copie, 1 recensione
The Signet Classic Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (1985) — Collaboratore — 43 copie, 1 recensione
Women in the Trees: U.S. Women's Short Stories About Battering and Resistance, 1839-1994 (1996) — Collaboratore — 41 copie
Civil War Memories: Nineteen Stories of Battle, Bravery, Love, and Tragedy (2000) — Collaboratore — 34 copie, 1 recensione
The Strange History of Suzanne LaFleshe and Other Stories of Women and Fatness (2003) — Collaboratore — 27 copie, 1 recensione
Classic American women writers: Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather (Perennial library ; P 502) (1980) — Collaboratore — 25 copie
Discovering Fiction Student's Book 1: A Reader of American Short Stories (2001) — Collaboratore — 20 copie
Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century (1983) — Collaboratore — 17 copie, 1 recensione
Great Classic Stories II: Eighteen Unabridged Classics (2010) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 16 copie
Haunted Women: The Best Supernatural Tales by American Women Writers (1985) — Collaboratore — 15 copie, 2 recensioni
Discovering Fiction Level 2 Student's Book: A Reader of North American Short Stories (2012) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
For Want of a Horse: Twenty-Three Tales of Supernatural Stallions, Magical Mares, and Paranormal Ponies (2015) — Collaboratore — 2 copie, 2 recensioni
ESSENTIAL COLLECTION OF CLASSIC BANNED BOOKS: Adam Bede, Fanny Hill, Candide, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, The… — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Short Stories by Kate Chopin, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Olive Schreiner (1998) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
La nueva mujer: Relatos de escritoras estadounidenses del siglo XIX — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Chopin, Kate
- Nome legale
- O'Flaherty, Katherine
- Altri nomi
- Chopin, Kate
- Data di nascita
- 1850-02-08
- Data di morte
- 1904-08-22
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Calvary Vemetery, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Luogo di morte
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Causa della morte
- brain hemorrhage
- Luogo di residenza
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Grand Coteau, Louisiana, USA
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, USA - Istruzione
- Sacred Heart Academy, St. Louis
- Attività lavorative
- novelist
short story writer - Organizzazioni
- Wednesday Club
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- St. Louis Walk of Fame
- Breve biografia
- Katherine O’Flaherty was the daughter of an Irish immigrant father and a French-Creole mother. She was educated at the St. Louis Sacred Heart Academy and then made a debut into Southern society. In 1870, she married Oscar Chopin, a cotton trader from Louisiana, and the couple had six children. Widowed in 1882, and needing to support herself and her young children, Kate Chopin began to write sketches of her former plantation life, which appeared in periodicals such as Bayou Folk. These received immediate acclaim, as did her first novel At Fault (1890). Kate Chopin published two novels and about 100 short stories in the 1890s. Most of her fiction was set in Louisiana and her best-known work focuses on the lives of sensitive, intelligent women. Her short stories were most popular in her own day and appeared in some of America's most prestigious magazines. After her death her work was temporarily forgotten, but then in the 1920s her short stories began to appear in anthologies, and the public and literary scholars again began to take notice of her.
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Il risveglio di Kate Chopin
Con questo romanzo, dapprima dimenticato e poi divenuto testo sacro del femminile, si retrodata l'inizio ideale della modernità: più di D.H. Lawrence la Chopin conduce qui una raffinata investigazione dell'eros, come la Woolf indica i percorsi tormentati della realizzazione di sé della donna, e prima di Hemingway impone alla pagina essenzialità di stile e di visione. Il paradigma ottocentesco della storia di adulterio si traduce in una analisi del corpo femminile nelle sue infinite accezioni, in un risveglio dei sensi, tra incanti visivi e sonori, e nella pacata consapevolezza del disagio o della rivolta nei confronti di modelli comportamentali, femminili e non, imposti dal contesto sociale. Tra seduzione e disagio, la morte ricercata della protagonista esalta, nega, e si fa complementare a quella di Emma Bovary o di Anna Karenina, spalancando l'abisso del nulla, ma nel trionfo erotico della protagonista. Vittima o vincitrice? Nella magia narrativa e linguistica di Il risveglio si cela la risposta che forse non c'è.… (altro)
Bellissima opera di una straordinaria scrittrice forse poco nota al grande pubblico. La Chopin può considerarsi a pieno titolo una delle prime scrittrici femministe, la sua stessa esistenza è significativa. Schiacciata dal ruolo imposto alle donne all'epoca (ci troviamo nella Louisiana della seconda metà dell'ottocento), madre di sei figli a soli ventotto anni e vedova a trenta, Kate, una donna colta in una società di schiavisti e coltivatori di cotone, inizia a scrivere per non soccombere. Proprio così, la scrittura è terapia e le consente di dare voce alle emozioni, ai sogni, agli aneliti delle donne.… (altro)
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