Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin ( born February 8, 1850 as Katherine O'Flaherty in St. Louis, † August 22, 1904 ) was an American writer. She is known primarily as the author of the 1899 first published novel The Awakening ( The Awakening ), which is classified as literary canon of English literature. She also wrote numerous short stories.

Life

Katherine O'Flaherty father's side was Irish- Catholic descent, his mother of French descent. She was the third and youngest child of Thomas O'Flaherty and his second wife, Eliza born Faris, who came from an old French family of Saint Louis. However, her father died (as well as later her sister ) even during their childhood.

1870 she married the plantation heir Oscar Chopin, moved to New Orleans with him and had six children.

Finally, she began to write. A doctor friend had advised her to do so. Numerous stories of her appeared in major magazines.

The novel, which should make it later became famous, The Awakening ( The Awakening German ), dissolved at his appearance, in 1899, a scandal. For in the book is about a woman of good society that refuses to be satisfied with the restrictions imposed on her. When Kate Chopin died in 1904, the criticism of her time had not yet recognized the quality of her work. Until its rediscovery The Awakening was for decades not printed. Today, the novel is regarded as an early work of the women's movement.

Works

In stock

• Bayou Folk ( 1894/Sammlung of short stories )
• A Night in Acadie ( 1897/Sammlung of short stories )
• The Awakening. (1899 )
• Désirée 's Baby (1893 )
• Complete Novels and Stories ISBN 1-931082-21-9 ( complete works )

In German

• The Awakening. ISBN 3-931043-22-3; ISBN 3-442-72553-4
• The storm. Selected Tales and Short Stories. Translated by Elisabeth Thielicke, inter alia, ISBN 3-423-11239-5; ISBN 3-442-72552-6
• The silk stockings. ISBN 3-89716-050-1 stories