Publisher's Synopsis
Annotations This book is unique because it contains a literary criticism that was made by Juan AcevedoPublished for the first time in 1892, The Yellow Tapestry is written as the secret diary of a woman who, weakened her love for marriage and motherhood, is forced to a rest cure in the countryside to remedy her "nervous condition," which it was really just a postpartum depression. Although she wishes to write, her husband and doctor forbids it, prescribing instead complete passivity. Enclosed in her room, the protagonist creates a reality of her own beyond the hypnotic drawing of the faded yellow tapestry, a drawing that has come to symbolize her own seclusion. Narrated with superb psychological and dramatic precision, The Yellow Tapestry stands out not only for the imaginative authenticity with which it paints the descent into the madness of a woman, but also for the strength of its testimony to the importance that freedom and self-empowerment have. for the womanDue to the nervous illness of the protagonist, she and her husband have to leave for three months to a manor house in the middle of the field. She knows, in reality, that her condition is not limited to a slight hysteria, as everyone around her insists on emphasizing, but she can do little about it, except to hide a diary in which she attempts to express her feelings. Recluded in a room she hates, always alone, she begins to become obsessed with the design of the yellow wallpaper that paperes the walls ... and where she can see, clearly, that something wants to break free and get out.The yellow tapestry, recounted as a first-person diary, relates intimately, digressively, almost childishly, the shocking story of a sick woman who is constantly denied her illness and who steals her autonomy in a sublime criticism of the medical system of the era and patriarchy, which allowed discrimination and relativization of the health status of women.The only protagonist is the narrator, an anonymous woman of whom the reader only knows what she lets him know, what he writes in his diary. The rest of the characters (her husband, the sister of this one) are nothing more than mere contextualization tools, since what this story wants to express is enclosed within the psyche of the narrator.Entrance to the entrance the woman is telling more intimacies about her and her surroundings. Thus the reader comes to know that they have moved to that house because the woman has what her husband calls "nervous breakdowns," that her husband does not really