覺醒：The Awakening（英文朗讀版）
KateChopin(1850–1904)wasanAmericanauthorofshortstoriesandnovelsbasedinLouisiana.SheisnowconsideredbysomescholarstohavebeenaforerunnerofAmerican20th-centuryfeministauthorsofSouthernorCatholicbackground,suchasZeldaFitzgerald.TheAwakeningwasfirstpublishedin1899.SetinNewOrleansandontheLouisianaGulfcoastattheendofthe19thcentury.Itiswidelyseenasalandmarkworkofearlyfeminism,generatingamixedreactionfromcontemporaryreadersandcritics.Thenovel'sblendofrealisticnarrative,incisivesocialcommentary,andpsychologicalcomplexitymakesTheAwakeningaprecursorofAmericanmodernistliterature;itprefigurestheworksofAmericannovelistssuchasWilliamFaulknerandErnestHemingwayandechoestheworksofcontemporariessuchasEdithWhartonandHenryJames.ChopindidnotwriteanothernovelafterTheAwakeningandhaddifficultypublishingstoriesafteritsrelease.Whenshediedfiveyearslater,shewasonherwaytobeingforgotten.In1960sPerSeyersted,aNorwegianliteraryscholarrediscoveredChopin,leadingTheAwakeningtoberememberedasthefeministfictionitistoday.
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