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.
瓶中美人 ——西尔维娅普拉斯《钟形罩》 “我合上眼眸,世界倒地死去; 我抬起眼帘,一切重获新生。” ——西尔维亚 普拉斯,《疯丫头的情诗》 西尔维娅 普拉斯是一个如此独特的存在,她诞生...
評分曾读过西尔维娅·普拉斯的诗集《未来是一只灰色的海鸥》里的一些诗,那些“重口味”的纠缠在一起的意象,太诡异了,显得高深莫测。这些诗歌,带给普拉斯一世盛名,极尽哀荣。对她有一定认识的人,应该都想看看她唯一的长篇《钟形罩》写了些什么,从中也许还能找到解读她的诗歌...
評分 評分"To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream."
评分既然要經曆疼痛那就彆上麻醉藥瞭;繼續看著他們虛情假意。
评分“the feminist novel in a Salinger mood...”
评分超好看 根本停不下來 就是很能懂
评分whining, touchy, gloomy, jumps a lot, simply not my type of read. 《鍾形罩》
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