Resumen
The heroine of this story, Edna Pontellier, goes through the stages of a compelling but ultimately tragic search for personal freedom. On publication in 1899, this book provided a frank treatment on adultery which aroused a storm of controversy.
With an effortless, sure-handed artistry, Kate Chopin takes her New Orleans heroine, Edna Pontellier, through the successive stages of a compelling but ultimately tragic search for personal freedom. The Awakening, in its frank, unapologetic treatment of the subject of adultery, was so far ahead of its time that it aroused, on its publication in 1899, a storm of controversy violent enough to end its author?s young career. The fact that we have the book at all is the most convincing tribute to its enduring, unsuppressible power.
