StartseiteGruppenForumMehrZeitgeist
Web-Site durchsuchen
Diese Seite verwendet Cookies für unsere Dienste, zur Verbesserung unserer Leistungen, für Analytik und (falls Sie nicht eingeloggt sind) für Werbung. Indem Sie LibraryThing nutzen, erklären Sie dass Sie unsere Nutzungsbedingungen und Datenschutzrichtlinie gelesen und verstanden haben. Die Nutzung unserer Webseite und Dienste unterliegt diesen Richtlinien und Geschäftsbedingungen.

Ergebnisse von Google Books

Auf ein Miniaturbild klicken, um zu Google Books zu gelangen.

Lädt ...

At Fault (1890)

von Kate Chopin

MitgliederRezensionenBeliebtheitDurchschnittliche BewertungDiskussionen
1172231,636 (3.63)8
Classic Literature. Fiction. Romance. Historical Fiction. HTML:

Groundbreaking author Kate Chopin was known for her innovative portraits of nineteenth-century heroines facing the challenges of life under strictly constrained gender roles. At Fault is a richly detailed historical romance set on a Louisiana plantation that delves deftly into the tangled web woven by a trio of star-crossed lovers whose lives have been rent asunder by misbegotten passion.

.… (mehr)
Keine
Lädt ...

Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest.

On one level an engaging love story against a Louisianan backdrop, and on another e look at the conflict between love and honor, and the problem of interfering in the lives of others. ( )
  snash | Feb 11, 2023 |
From the back cover:
“Widowed at thirty-two, beautiful, resourceful Therese Lafirme is left alone to run her Louisiana plantation. When Therese falls in love with David Hosmer, a divorced businessman, her strong moral and religious convictions make it impossible for her to accept his marriage proposal. Her determined rejection sets the two on a tumultuous path that involves Hosmer’s troubled former wife, Fanny.”

This was Chopin’s first novel, written eight years after she herself was widowed at 32 on a Louisiana plantation (though unlike Therese, Chopin had six kids at the time). Chopin then had a romance with a married man before abruptly moving back to St. Louis a couple of years later.

The idea of divorce in the 19th century was highly distasteful, and particularly so to conservative, Catholic, southern communities. In her personal life as well as in her writing, Chopin thus wrestles with the question of an individual’s happiness in light of social pressures and the ethics of the times, like Edith Wharton would shortly afterwards. The conclusions she draws are clear: to subvert one’s happiness for the sake of an arbitrary code of righteousness is a mistake.

As for the writing itself, ‘At Fault’ is rough around the edges; dramatic events seem a little forced and the ending is too clean. The treatment of African-American characters is also tough to take, not because of outright violence, but because of the casual racism evident in how they’re depicted, which is lazy and unintelligent – and this isn’t just from the characters in the novel; Chopin herself apparently had these prejudices.

However, I took this as one of the truths of the novel, in effectively transporting me back to a bayou plantation and St. Louis in the 1880’s. Chopin’s characters are interesting, from the Creoles to the society ladies who she satirizes. A recurring theme is the difficulty of carrying on through change or after loss, which I suppose has a bigger implication in the Reconstruction South, but it’s highly personalized here.

This is a first novel and must be forgiven a few sins, and if you want the more polished Chopin head directly her classic, ‘The Awakening’, but I found ‘At Fault’ interesting and enjoyable.

Just this quote, on decisions in life:
“She tried to convince herself that a very insistent sting of remorse which she felt, came from selfishness – from the pain that her own heart suffered in the knowledge of Hosmer’s unhappiness. She was not callous enough to quiet her soul with the balm of having intended the best. She continued to ask herself only ‘was I right?’ and it was by the answer to that question that she would abide, whether in the stony content of accomplished righteousness, or in an enduring remorse that pointed to a goal in whose labyrinthine possibilities her soul lost itself and fainted away.” ( )
3 abstimmen gbill | Feb 15, 2015 |
keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Du musst dich einloggen, um "Wissenswertes" zu bearbeiten.
Weitere Hilfe gibt es auf der "Wissenswertes"-Hilfe-Seite.
Gebräuchlichster Titel
Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen.
Originaltitel
Alternative Titel
Ursprüngliches Erscheinungsdatum
Figuren/Charaktere
Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen.
Wichtige Schauplätze
Wichtige Ereignisse
Zugehörige Filme
Epigraph (Motto/Zitat)
Widmung
Erste Worte
Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen.
When Jerome Lafirme died, his neighbours awaited the results of his sudden taking off with indolent watchfulness.
Zitate
Letzte Worte
Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen.
Hinweis zur Identitätsklärung
Verlagslektoren
Werbezitate von
Originalsprache
Anerkannter DDC/MDS
Anerkannter LCC

Literaturhinweise zu diesem Werk aus externen Quellen.

Wikipedia auf Englisch

Keine

Classic Literature. Fiction. Romance. Historical Fiction. HTML:

Groundbreaking author Kate Chopin was known for her innovative portraits of nineteenth-century heroines facing the challenges of life under strictly constrained gender roles. At Fault is a richly detailed historical romance set on a Louisiana plantation that delves deftly into the tangled web woven by a trio of star-crossed lovers whose lives have been rent asunder by misbegotten passion.

.

Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden.

Buchbeschreibung
Zusammenfassung in Haiku-Form

Aktuelle Diskussionen

Keine

Beliebte Umschlagbilder

Gespeicherte Links

Bewertung

Durchschnitt: (3.63)
0.5
1
1.5
2 2
2.5
3 2
3.5 2
4 7
4.5 1
5 1

Bist das du?

Werde ein LibraryThing-Autor.

 

Über uns | Kontakt/Impressum | LibraryThing.com | Datenschutz/Nutzungsbedingungen | Hilfe/FAQs | Blog | LT-Shop | APIs | TinyCat | Nachlassbibliotheken | Vorab-Rezensenten | Wissenswertes | 203,223,081 Bücher! | Menüleiste: Immer sichtbar