The Bell Jar

西尔维娅·普拉斯(1932—1963)，美国著名女诗人，小说家。诗集《庞然大物》、《爱丽尔》被认为是1960年代“自白派”诗歌的代表作。八岁那年父亲去世后，她便不断在诗中歌吟死亡，也曾多次试图自杀。1956年，与英国著名诗人特德·休斯一见钟情，闪电结婚。1962年两人分居。1963年她的自传体小说《钟形罩》出版三周后，她自杀身亡。普拉斯的诗歌是20世纪的一个奇迹，在她死后多年为她赢得了普利策诗歌奖。

出版者:HarperCollins

作者:Sylvia Plath

页数:320

出版时间:1996-10-09

价格:USD 20.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780060174903

图书标签:文学外国文学1001

The Bell Jar is a classic of American literature, with over two million copies sold in this country. This extraordinary work chronicles the crackup of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful -- but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time. Step by careful step, Sylvia Plath takes us with Esther through a painful month in New York as a contest-winning junior editor on a magazine, her increasingly strained relationships with her mother, and with the boy she dated in college, and eventually, devastatingly, into the madness itself. The reader is drawn into her breakdown with such intensity that her insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies.

Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is rare in any novel. It points to the fact that The Bell Jar is a largely autobiographical work about Plath's own summer of 1953, when she was a guest editor at Mademoiselle and went through a breakdown. It reveals so much about the sources of Sylvia Plath's own tragedy that its publication was considered a landmark in literature.

"Esther Greenwood's account of her years in The Bell Jar is as clear and readable as it is witty and disturbing ... [This] is not a potboiler, nor a series of ungrateful caricatures; it is literature." -New York Times

This special 25th-anniversary edition includes a new foreword by Frances McCullough,who was the Harper & Row editor for the original edition, about the untold story of The Bell Jar's first American publication.

读后感

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...  

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...  

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...  

她八岁那年，父亲去世。她因此决然道：“我不再与上帝通话。”她开始创作诗歌，并渐渐成名。她是美国最大的女子学院里功课全A的优等生。她经受严重的精神疾病困扰，直至需要接受电击治疗。她数度试图自尽：割腕、自缢、溺水、服安眠药……死神却屡次手下留情。三十岁那年，她终...  

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，...  

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