The Bell Jar
内容简介
A vulnerable young girl wins a dream assignment on a big-time New York fashion magazine and finds herself plunged into a nightmare. An autobiographical account of Sylvia Plath's own mental breakdown and suicide attempt, The Bell Jar is more than a confessional novel, it is a comic but painful statement of what happens to a woman's aspirations in a society that refuses to take them seriously... a society that expects electroshock to cure the despair of a sensitive, questioning young artist whose search for identity becomes a terrifying descent toward madness.
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作者简介
Sylvia Plath was born in 1932 in Massachusetts. Her books include the poetry collections The Colossus, Crossing the Water, Winter Trees, Ariel, and The Collected Poems, which won the Pulitzer Prize. Plath is credited with being a pioneer of the 20th-century style of writing called confessional poetry. Her poem "Daddy" is one of the best-known examples of this genre.
In 1963, Plath's semi-autobiographic novel The Bell Jar was published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas"; it was reissued in 1966 under her own name. A complete and uncut facsimile edition of Ariel was published in 2004 with her original selection and arrangement of poems. She was married to the poet Ted Hughes, with whom she had a daughter, Frieda, and a son, Nicholas. She died in London in 1963.
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读书文摘
人们曾问一位古老的罗马哲学家还是别的什么人，他希望怎么死法，他说他愿意在温水浴中割开他的血管。我想，这容易，躺在浴缸里，瞧着从我手腕里开出的鲜红的花朵，一朵又一朵，绽放在清澈的水中，直到我没入水中，沉沉睡去，水面荡漾着绚丽夺目的罂粟般的花朵。
同样的情形一遍又一遍地发生：远远地，我发现一个毫无瑕疵的男人，可是一旦他靠得近些，我立刻就发现他根本不合我的理想。 这就是我永远不想结婚的理由之一。我最腻味的就是永恒的安全感，或者当个射箭的出发点。我想要变化，想要兴奋，想我自己往四面八方射出箭去，就像七月四日独立日的火箭射出的五彩缤纷的礼花。
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