The Yellow Wall Paper
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- 19,00 kr
Publisher Description
When The Yellow Wall Paper was first published in 1892, the story was regarded as a gripping, disturbing piece of entertainment, but little more. After its rediscovery in the 20th century, readings of the story have become more complex. Forbidden from working, the narrator of the tale must hide her journal from an overbearing husband, who insists she must recuperate from what he calls a “temporary nervous depression and a slight hysterical tendency.” The tale depicts the effect of confinement on the narrator’s mental health, and her subsequent descent into madness. This rather compelling short story artfully depicts the prevailing attitudes in the 19th century toward women’s physical and mental health. It is now widely regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Yuen leads listeners convincingly through this beautifully wrought 1892 short story. She begins the first-person narrative with the voice of a sensible if somewhat distraught young woman confined by her doctor husband to an attic room with hideous yellow wallpaper and bars on the windows. She is thought to have a nervous condition and is permitted no activity, including writing, lest it tire her. Eschewing melodrama, Yuen gradually changes tone and inflection as the weeks pass and the wife starts tearing down the wallpaper, perceives another woman behind it trying to get out, and finally descends into madness. It's a short, intoxicating listen that merits more than one replay.
