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...
評分 評分我是个含笑的女人。 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...
評分<The Bell Jar>在微博上有人提到这本书,正愁着找新书读就去书店给买了回来。 这是第一本让我读到绝望的书。本该是一本Plath的半自传式小说,血淋淋的让我读出了自己在里面的影子。网上对于Plath的自杀有各种揣测,更不乏极度缺少想象力的宣传式语句:“或许感情越是热烈,普...
評分读普拉斯的时候,适合听轻音乐,她的文字暗暗涌动着一股倾覆一切的力量,温和却锋利。一位饱含情感的作家,敏感、细腻,恐惧着一切,又与一切不断地抗争。一本《钟形罩》,像将积蓄了一生的力量顷刻爆发出来。她小心的存在着,像个生活的旁观者,在自己头上绑一根线然后放手,...
永遠活在青春期的普拉斯,如果她還活著,該有多好!對抑鬱癥的描寫極其細緻,比喻跳躍有詩情,就小說本身而言還是有幼稚的痕跡。看完結尾的生平簡介,厭倦嘆息,無限惋惜。
评分讀不下去
评分玻璃鍾罩是扣在抑鬱癥患者身上的無形屏障,治療的過程是把鍾罩稍稍嚮上提起,讓空氣稍稍流通。普拉斯呈現瞭完整的抑鬱狀態,厭惡、憎恨、淡漠、自殺、自戀,這個世界狹窄但怪異得斑斕。
评分看瞭豆瓣的評論,難道這本書隻是我們的女文青自怨自憐自我裝B的産物嗎?
评分unexpectedly hilarious and upbeat comming from Plath," A time of darkness, despair, disillusion-so black only as the inferno of the human mind can be-symbolic death, and numb shock- then the painful agony of slow rebirth and psychic regeneration"--remind me of that poem of hers: Lady Lazarus.
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