The Awakening
(Reklamlänk)
The Awakening caused a stir amongst it's readers when it was first published in 1899.
With its realistic portrayal of female marital infidelity, an anudience accustomed to the pieties of late Victorian romantic fiction were shocked by Chopin's radical portrayal of a woman trapped in a stifling marriage, seeking passionate physical love outside the confines of her domestic situation.
