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Chargement... The Yellow Wallpaper [short fiction] (1892)par Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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So much to unpack. I'm going to sit with it for a while. A story about postpartum depression, make doctors who have no idea how to treat it, and an obsession with wallpaper. This just didn’t do it for me. Short story. Clearly the inspiration for Mexican Gothic?! "I suppose John never was nervous in his life. He laughs at me so about this wall-paper! At first he meant to repaper the room, but afterwards he said that I was letting it get the better of me, and that nothing was worse for a nervous patient than to give way to such fancies. He said that after the wall-paper was changed it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on." - John's wife Surreally horrific. Read it. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Une oeuvre majeure de la litt�rature f�ministe, et l'une des �vocations les plus saisissantes de la folie. Seul Franz Kafka, saura �crire, plus tard, la d�mence avec une violence comparable. La folie, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, contemporaine d'Edith Wharton, l'a v�cue toute sa vie dans une d�pression clinique, jusqu'� son suicide en 1935. D�pressive elle aussi, mari�e � un m�decin, si attentif qu'il en devient oppressant, la narratrice de Le Papier peint jaune est confin�e dans une chambre de la maison que loue le couple pour un �t�. Afin qu'elle se repose, lui dit-on, qu'elle ne fasse rien, et surtout ne pas �crire - ce qu'elle accompli cependant � l'insu de tous. Car le papier peint r�sume la maladie mentale. Bient�t, elle lui pr�te une odeur, un regard, une personnalit�; elle imagine que des femmes indistincts sont retenues entre le mur et lui, que les motifs s'animent et entendent prendre la fuite. Alors, elle arrache la tapisserie pour lib�rer les prisonni�res. En �dition bilingue anglais/fran�ais, avec lecture audio int�gr�e: non seulement vous pouvez lire Le Papier peint jaune en fran�ais et en anglais, mais vous pouvez aussi �couter la lecture de cet ouvrage soit dans sa version originale anglophone, soit dans sa traduction fran�aise. Comment ? Tout simplement gr�ce � votre t�l�phone, tablette ou webcam. L'id�al pour am�liorer votre ma�trise de la langue de Shakespeare... et de Moli�re ! Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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this was written in the 1890s, so clearly women not being believed about their bodies, their selves, their minds, is an ongoing problem that we've been facing for a long, long time. the medical system still doesn't believe (or really even study) women when we say that things aren't right in our bodies. we aren't believed and we aren't trusted, and the main character in this short but powerful story faces that as well. at the same time, anyone who tries to live outside the proscribed "norms" will face a pushback that labels them sick or crazy or unwell, as we see so often today, too.
it's really fascinating to see her progression, as more and more of her autonomy is taken from her, into further madness. (or is it madness? it is release from shackles that were binding her?) i guess that's the really exciting question for me - do we see her, at the end, having gone raving mad, being driven that way because her doctor husband and her doctor brother weren't listening to her, weren't getting her what she needed, or do we see her having freed herself from the prison that society has created, and starting anew, having broken out? and, maybe, can it be both? (