The Yellow Wall Paper

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The Yellow Wall Paper (1973)

64 pages

English language

Published Dec. 20, 1973

ISBN:
9780912670096
Goodreads:
1042075

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5 stars (3 reviews)

"The Yellow Wallpaper" (original title: "The Yellow Wall-paper. A Story") is a short story by 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 for its illustration of the attitudes towards mental and physical health of women in the 19th century. Narrated in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband has rented an old mansion for the summer. Forgoing other rooms in the house, the couple moves into the upstairs nursery. As a form of treatment, the husband forbids the unnamed woman from working or writing and encourages her to eat well and get plenty of air so that she can recuperate from what he calls a "temporary nervous depression – a slight hysterical tendency", a common diagnosis in women at …

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Nouvelle de 1892 sur le traitement "cure de repos" pour les femmes...

5 stars

Composé sous forme de journal intime, The Yellow Wallpaper / Le Papier peint jaune (aussi connu sous le titre La Séquestrée,) est basé sur les propres expériences de dépression par l'auteure.

C'est l'histoire d'une femme malade, dont le mari est un médecin qui lui a prescrit la « cure de repos », alors en vogue. La narratrice décrit l'infantilisation de son mari et comment la chambre dans laquelle elle est alitée pendant cette cure de repos l'étouffe et la conduit au bord de la folie. J'ai adoré le twist un peu surnaturel, symbole de sa dépression.

j'adore le style narratif d'époque, que Charlotte a su "réduire" sans perdre de la saveur.

Cette œuvre est féministe et parle donc des attitudes du 19e siècle à l'égard des femmes et de leur santé, que ce soit physique ou mentale. Par contre, je vous préviens pour d'autres lectures, que sa vue sur l'esclavage …

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5 stars

I had read The Yellow Wallpaper already, but I was curious to see other works from Gilman. She's AMAZING. Not only is every story full of feminist punch, they're also very funny. Her sense of humor is endlessly charming. My favorite in the collection was "When I Was a Witch," which I laughed almost all the way through and then was surprisingly touched by its conclusion.