Esther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under—maybe for the last time. In her acclaimed and enduring masterwork, Sylvia Plath brilliantly draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that her insanity becomes palpably real, even rational—as accessible an experience as going to the movies. A deep penetration into the darkest and most harrowing corners of the human psyche, The Bell Jar is an extraordinary accomplishment and a haunting American classic.
To this day, Sylvia Plath's writings continue to inspire and provoke. Her only published novel, The Bell Jar, remains a classic of American literature, and The Colossus (1960), Ariel (1965), Crossing the Water (1971), Winter Trees (1971), and The Collected Poems (1981) have placed her among this century's essential American poets.
Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932, the first child of Aurelia and Otto Plath. When Sylvia was eight years old, her father died--an event that would haunt her remaining years--and the family moved to the college town of Wellesley. By high school, Plath's talents were firmly established; in fact, her first published poem had appeared when she was eight. In 1950, she entered Smith College, where she excelled academically and continued to write; and in 1951 she won Mademoiselle magazine's fiction contest. Her experiences during the summer of 1953--as a guest editor at Mademoiselle in New York City and in deepening depression back home--provided the basis for The Bell Jar. Near that summer's end, Plath nearly succeeded in killing herself. After therapy and electroshock, however, she resumed her academic and literary endeavors. Plath graduated from Smith in 1955 and, as a Fulbright Scholar, entered Newnham College, in Cambridge, England, where she met the British poet, Ted Hughes. They were married a year later. After a two-year tenure on the Smith College faculty and a brief stint in Boston, Plath and Hughes returned to England, where their two children were born.
Plath had been successful in placing poems in several prestigious magazines, but suffered repeated rejection in her attempts to place a first book. The Colossus appeared in England, however, in the fall of 1960, and the publisher, William Heinemann, also bought her first novel. By June 1962, she had begun the poems that eventually appeared in Ariel. Later that year, separated from Hughes, Plath immersed herself in caring for her children, completing The Bell Jar, and writing poems at a breathtaking pace.
A few days before Christmas 1962, she moved with the children to a London flat. By the time The Bell Jar was published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas, in early 1963, she was in desperate circumstances. Her marriage was over, she and her children were ill, and the winter was the coldest in a century. Early on the morning of February 11, Plath turned on the cooking gas and killed herself.
Plath was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for her Collected Poems.
我是个含笑的女人。 我才三十岁。 像猫一样可死九次。 ——Sylvia Plath 第一次读到Sylvia Plath的诗时,就被它字里行间不加掩饰的宣泄气质所吸引。正是青涩又乖戾的年纪,不担心生活,不担心爱情,不担心未来,不担心身边的一切。刚走出一阵自闭的时光,仿佛要偿还漫长时...
评分一口气读完了《钟形罩》,我已想不起来上一次如此酣畅淋漓的阅读是在何时。虽然最近在《le conte de Monte Cristo》,《Sans famille》,《Nouvelles choisies de Maupassant》之间不断轮流转换,却是对于短语及句子结构的兴趣大于作品本身,并无多大的阅读乐趣可言。 如若...
评分我又尝试了一次, 我十年 尝试一次—— 我是一个笑容可掬的女人, 我仅仅三十岁, 我像猫一样有九条性命, 这是第三条 每十年就要消灭 一个废物! 诗歌《拉撒路夫人》(Lady Lazarus)完成后不久,西尔维娅•普拉斯在伦敦寓所里进行了她的第四次尝试。这次,死亡接纳了...
评分1。 “我合上眼眸,世界倒地死去; 我抬起眼帘,一切重获新生。” 这真的不像人写的诗,所以我将它的全文找出来: Mad Girl's Love Song "I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.) Th...
评分我在想 不该用一个自杀而死的女士作为我的精神标榜。但我似乎无法抵抗她的文字。是这样,还没有大量的读过她的诗篇,就先看了这个自传类小说,从前总觉得自传要厚厚一本,要尽量的流水账,长版的简历一样啰啰嗦嗦的阐述一生。 她是一个让我目不转睛的女人。一年以前...
“the feminist novel in a Salinger mood...”
评分只想有一天能对英文产生共鸣
评分“the feminist novel in a Salinger mood...”
评分“the feminist novel in a Salinger mood...”
评分既然要经历疼痛那就别上麻醉药了;继续看着他们虚情假意。
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