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The Yellow Wallpaper de Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Yellow Wallpaper

Autor Charlotte Perkins Gilman Ilustrat de Leonardo Illustrator
en Limba Engleză Paperback

Poate fi oare izolarea forțată, impusă sub masca grijii maritale, mai degrabă o formă de tortură decât un tratament? În această scurtă dar densă operă de ficțiune, descoperim o cronică tulburătoare a pierderii autonomiei feminine. Scrisă cu o furie stăpânită, The Yellow Wallpaper ne introduce în mintea unei femei captive nu doar într-o cameră cu un tapet galben respingător, ci și într-o structură socială care îi neagă dreptul la stimulare intelectuală și exprimare creativă. Notăm cu interes cum tonul narativ glisează de la o observație sarcastică, aproape resemnată, către o obsesie febrilă, pe măsură ce protagonista începe să deslușească siluete care se târăsc în spatele modelului complicat de pe perete.

Imaginați-vă tensiunea psihologică și atmosfera apăsătoare din The Yellow Wallpaper And Selected Writings, mutată într-un decor de izolare domestică victoriană unde liniștea este obligatorie, iar scrisul este un act de rebeliune clandestină. Față de alte lucrări ale autoarei, precum Herland, unde Charlotte Perkins Gilman explorează viziuni utopice despre societăți conduse de femei, aici perspectiva este intimă și claustrofobică, concentrându-se pe efectele devastatoare ale lipsei de libertate asupra psihicului uman. Este un roman polițist al minții, unde agresorul este adesea invizibil, ascuns sub bunele intenții ale medicinei secolului al XIX-lea. Ritmul este unul insidios, oglindind degradarea lentă a percepției, iar finalul rămâne unul dintre cele mai stranii și discutate momente din literatura americană.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781515366300
ISBN-10: 1515366308
Pagini: 52
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 3 mm
Greutate: 0.09 kg
Editura: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricărui cititor interesat de originile literaturii feministe și de explorările psihologice profunde. The Yellow Wallpaper oferă o perspectivă istorică dură asupra tratamentului sănătății mintale la femei, fiind în același timp o lectură captivantă prin atmosfera sa gotică. Veți câștiga o înțelegere mai clară a modului în care autonomia personală este esențială pentru echilibrul psihic, totul într-un format compact, perfect pentru o lectură intensă.

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) a fost o figură centrală a feminismului american, sociolog și scriitoare a cărei viață a fost marcată de o luptă constantă pentru independență. Crescută într-o familie cu legături intelectuale puternice (fiind nepoata lui Harriet Beecher Stowe), dar marcată de sărăcie și abandonul tatălui, Gilman a devenit o voce critică la adresa structurilor opresive ale căsătoriei victoriene. Experiența sa personală cu depresia și tratamentul restrictiv impus de medici a stat la baza operei sale cele mai cunoscute, transformând suferința individuală într-o critică socială universală ce continuă să fie studiată și astăzi.

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Unabridged & Original version with all 50 pages

"The Yellow Wallpaper (original title: "The Yellow Wallpaper. A Story") is a 6,000-word short story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's health, both physical and mental.

Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband (John) has rented an old mansion for the summer. Foregoing other rooms in the house, the couple moves into the upstairs nursery. As a form of treatment she is forbidden from working, and is encouraged to eat well and get plenty of exercise and air, so she can recuperate from what he calls a "temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency," a diagnosis common to women in that period. She hides her journal from her husband and his sister the housekeeper, fearful of being reproached for overworking herself. Because it's a nursery the room's windows are barred, to prevent children from climbing through them, and there is a gate across the top of the stairs, though she and her husband have access to the rest of the house and its adjoining estate.

The story depicts the effect of understimulation on the narrator's mental health and her descent into psychosis. With nothing to stimulate her, she becomes obsessed by the pattern and color of the wallpaper. "It is the strangest yellow, that wall-paper It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw - not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things. But there is something else about that paper - the smell ... The only thing I can think of that it is like is the color of the paper A yellow smell."

In the end, she imagines there are women creeping around behind the patterns of the wallpaper and comes to believe she is one of them. She locks herself in the room, now the only place she feels safe, refusing to leave when the summer rental is up. "For outside you have to creep on the ground, and everything is green instead of yellow. But here I can creep smoothly on the floor, and my shoulder just fits in that long smooch around the wall, so I cannot lose my way."

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First appearing in 1892 The Yellow Wallpaper is a searing vision of a distinctively feminine form of madness and commands attention as an arresting tale of horror and a moving look into a woman's mind.

 

The story uncompromisingly thrusts the reader into the mind of the narrator. She is a woman forced, ostensibly for her own good, into a 'rest cure', a psychological straitjacket so constricting that she begins to unravel. Her mental dissolution is described with such fierce immediacy that The Yellow Wallpaper has been read and anthologized as a chilling horror tale. While it can easily be appreciated for its disorienting thrills, the story's true resonance comes from its matter-of-fact portrayal of a woman pushed to the rim of sanity by society's demands and her family's utter inability to conceive of the fact that she cannot fit within their strictures. Shot through with unforgettable images of the yellow wallpaper, its shadowy depths and what seems to lurk there, The Yellow Wallpaper builds to a climax that combines the narrative impact of an Edgar Allan Poe story with a wrenching protest of the treatment of women. Unique and genre-bending, Gilman's story was unrivaled in its era and its power endures undiminished today.

With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Yellow Wallpaper is both modern and readable.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

Best known for the 1892 title story of this collection, a harrowing tale of a woman's descent into madness, Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote more than 200 other short stories. Seven of her finest are reprinted here.
Written from a feminist perspective, often focusing on the inferior status accorded to women by society, the tales include "turned," an ironic story with a startling twist, in which a husband seduces and impregnates a naive servant; "Cottagette," concerning the romance of a young artist and a man who's apparently too good to be true; "Mr. Peebles' Heart," a liberating tale of a fiftyish shopkeeper whose sister-in-law, a doctor, persuades him to take a solo trip to Europe, with revivifying results; "The Yellow Wallpaper"; and three other outstanding stories.
These charming tales are not only highly readable and full of humor and invention, but also offer ample food for thought about the social, economic, and personal relationship of men and women and how they might be improved."

Recenzii

Even if the themes being explored might seem irrelevant to you today and especially to such young audience, I can assure you that this is not the case
A great work of literature, the product of a questing, burning intellect
I loved it. I loved the unnerving, sarcastic tone, the creepy ending, the clarity of its critique of the popular nineteenth century

Notă biografică

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), also known as Charlotte Perkins Stetson, her first married name, was a prominent American humanist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist and served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. She has been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. Her best remembered works today are her semi-autobiographical short story The Yellow Wallpaper, which she wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis; and Herland, the rediscovered feminist classic about a civilisation without men.