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Chargement... A Night in Acadie (1897)par Kate Chopin
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This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. ************. He was a robust young fellow with good, stronga somewhat determined expression OCo despite his vacillations in the choice of a wife. He was dressed rather carefully in navy-blue store-clothes that fitted well because anything would have fitted Tel sphore. He had been freshly shaved and trimmed and carried an umbrella. He wore OCo al little tilted over one eye OCo a straw hat in preference to the conventional gray felt; for no other reason than that his uncle Tel sphore would have worn a felt, and a battered one at that. His whole conduct of life had been planned on lines in direct contradistinction to those of his uncle Tel sphore, whom he was thought in youth to greatly remsemble. The elder Tel sphore could not read or write, therefore the younger had made it the object of his existence to acquire these accomplishments. The uncle pursued the avocations of hunting, fishing, and moss-picking; employments which the nephew held in detestation. And as for carrying an umbrella, Nonc Tel sphore would have walked the length of the parish in a deluge before he would have so much thought of one. In short, Tel sphore, by advisedly shaping his course in direct opposition to that of his uncle, managed to lead a rather orderly, industrious, and respectable existence." Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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‘A Night in Acadie’ – the first story is the title story to the collection and one of its longest, it has a couple of young people meeting each other at a ball, where tensions rise because other hearts are involved.
‘Athenaise’ – another relatively long story about a woman who is unhappy in her marriage; it has a different outcome than her masterpiece ‘The Awakening’ (1899) but presages it. I like how fleshed out it was, and the maturity of the writing. It also clearly indicates some of the constraints women were under at the time; as Chopin puts it, “The day had not come when a young woman might ask the court’s permission to return to her mamma on the sweeping ground of a constitutional disinclination for marriage.”
‘Regret’ – about a childless unmarried woman who only realizes her love for kids after she’s had to care for five rambunctious children for a couple of weeks.
‘A Sentimental Soul’ – about a woman shopkeeper who falls in love for a married man who comes in for a daily paper, confesses her sin to a priest and thereafter does her best to stay away from him, and then after he’s dead, tends to his grave and reveres a picture of him; sentimentality winning out over morality.
‘Odalie Misses Mass’ – about a young girl who misses church to care for a doddering old woman who mistakes her for someone from her younger years.
Chopin occasionally says disparaging to Indians or Blacks that is jarring to our ears 100+ years later, but in general it’s clear she embraces a multicultural, multiethnic world, and in these stories has given us a little window into it. (