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.
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.
这世界上写诗的人永远比读诗的人要多. 我猜知道Plath是自杀而死的人也比读过她诗的人要多. Plath用笔名发表了这本<钟型罩>, 她比喻自己的抑郁症为钟型罩 - 外面的世界跟她只隔着玻璃, 她看的一清二楚, 但是身在钟型罩中的她却缺氧抑郁. 看书之前生怕这是本抱怨生活, 责怪老天...
评分这世界上写诗的人永远比读诗的人要多. 我猜知道Plath是自杀而死的人也比读过她诗的人要多. Plath用笔名发表了这本<钟型罩>, 她比喻自己的抑郁症为钟型罩 - 外面的世界跟她只隔着玻璃, 她看的一清二楚, 但是身在钟型罩中的她却缺氧抑郁. 看书之前生怕这是本抱怨生活, 责怪老天...
评分 评分常常 在内耗中照顾他人的情绪 在任性时执拗的特立独行 困在钟形罩里这种长满触角 没有大脑 停止成长的生物 只会被活生生 血淋淋的撕裂开来 这原本可以升华为一种高贵的姿态 可为什么会沦落到去艳羡所谓的正常人的自由? 我的地貌 不应该仅仅是一句高昂的宣扬 在仿若被...
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...
超好看 根本停不下来 就是很能懂
评分不知道哪天钟形罩又会扣下来
评分To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead body, the world itself is the bad dream. Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind of snow, should numb and cover them. But they were part of me. They were my landscape.
评分超好看 根本停不下来 就是很能懂
评分whining, touchy, gloomy, jumps a lot, simply not my type of read. 《钟形罩》
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