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.
“對於睏在鍾形罩裏的人,那個大腦空白生長停止的人,這世界本身無疑是一場噩夢。“ 普拉斯的處境似我。二十三歲,除瞭文學略通以外缺乏任何基本的生存能力,任何一次退稿都造成緻命的打擊,缺乏交流,諸事不順,沒有勇氣一次性告彆虛假的生活。愛情也漸漸熄滅,電療除瞭帶來噩...
評分 評分我醒瞭,是被同住的室友吵醒的。他問我吃飯嗎,我被從深深的睡意裏拉齣,勉強擠齣個“不”字。然後就醒瞭。待到他們齣門“砰”的一聲,我就爬起來瞭。撒瞭泡尿,膀胱從極度充盈的緊綳狀態中鬆懈下來,尿水射到馬桶裏,泡沫疊起,我一直很好奇這個:究竟是尿裏有什麼成份導緻瞭...
評分瓶中美人 ——西爾維婭普拉斯《鍾形罩》 “我閤上眼眸,世界倒地死去; 我抬起眼簾,一切重獲新生。” ——西爾維亞 普拉斯,《瘋丫頭的情詩》 西爾維婭 普拉斯是一個如此獨特的存在,她誕生...
評分瓶中美人 ——西爾維婭普拉斯《鍾形罩》 “我閤上眼眸,世界倒地死去; 我抬起眼簾,一切重獲新生。” ——西爾維亞 普拉斯,《瘋丫頭的情詩》 西爾維婭 普拉斯是一個如此獨特的存在,她誕生...
這本書留給我的最深刻印象,是關於“選擇”與“無能為力”的辯證關係。主人公擁有天賦、擁有機會,但她仿佛被某種命運的慣性所裹挾,每一次試圖做齣“正確”的選擇,都會導嚮意想不到的睏境。它探討瞭一個核心議題:當個體的內在價值體係與外部世界設定的成功標準發生根本性衝突時,個體應該如何存活?書中對於醫療體製、精神疾病的描寫,帶著一種冷峻的距離感,仿佛在揭示:即便是被給予幫助,如果社會不理解你掙紮的根源,那幫助也隻是暫時的敷衍。我讀齣瞭那種對“被治愈”的懷疑,對被簡化為“病癥”的抗拒。最終,讀者似乎被留在瞭這樣一個開放性的結局中:真正的救贖,或許並非來自外部的乾預,而是在於能否在徹底崩潰之後,以一種全新的、可能與主流格格不入的方式,重新構建生活的意義。這本書的後勁很強,它像一顆低頻振動的石子,沉在心底,久久不散。
评分這本書的文字像一首陰鬱而又迷人的詩歌,它不僅僅是在講述一個故事,更像是在剖析一種靈魂深處的掙紮與迷失。初讀時,我被那種近乎刺骨的清醒感所震撼,作者用極其精準且富有穿透力的筆觸描繪瞭主人公在社會期望與內心真實自我之間的劇烈拉扯。那種感覺,就像是身處一個華麗卻布滿裂痕的玻璃罩中,外界的一切喧囂和色彩都變得遙遠而失真,而自己卻被睏在內部,無望地觀察著時間的流逝和自我狀態的惡化。敘事節奏的把握非常巧妙,時而急促如風暴來臨前的壓抑,時而緩慢得如同凝固的琥珀,將那種無力感和被時間遺棄的恐慌層層堆疊起來。我尤其欣賞作者對細節的捕捉,那些看似微不足道的日常場景,在特定的心境下被賦予瞭沉重的象徵意義,仿佛每一個物件、每一句對話都暗藏著某種隻有主人公能懂的密碼或陷阱。這種閱讀體驗是沉浸式的,需要讀者放下一切預設的期待,完全潛入那個充滿矛盾、渴望自由卻又被恐懼牢牢鎖住的精神世界。讀完後,那種揮之不去的悵然若失感,讓人忍不住反思自己生活中那些被忽視的微小“裂痕”。
评分這本書的語言風格,有一種令人上癮的、略帶病態的幽默感。它並非那種讓人捧腹大笑的喜劇,而是一種建立在深刻洞察和自我解嘲之上的黑色幽默。主人公觀察世界的目光是挑剔的、充滿嘲諷的,她用一種近乎超然的視角來審視自己和周遭的荒謬,這種疏離感反而成瞭她保護自己免於徹底崩潰的最後一道屏障。我發現自己常常會因為某一句對白或者對某個場景的精準刻畫而會心一笑,但笑聲的背後往往是更深層次的悲涼。這種高智商的“病態清醒”,使得角色具有瞭極強的復雜性,她既是受害者,也在某種程度上成為瞭自己睏境的參與者和推手。這種敘事上的張力,讓人物形象立體而真實,而不是一個扁平的、符號化的“病人”。它展示瞭心靈是如何在極端壓力下,發展齣一種獨特的、自洽的邏輯體係來應對外界的混亂。
评分閱讀此書的過程,更像是一次對時代背景下女性生存睏境的深度考察。作者構建的世界觀,充斥著一種隱性的、無處不在的規訓感,社會對於“完美女性”的定義像一張無形的網,緊緊勒住瞭每一個試圖掙脫束縛的個體。主人公的經曆,無疑是對這種規範發齣的最無聲也最尖銳的反抗。我注意到,書中對不同階層、不同職業女性的描摹,都帶著一種諷刺的精緻,她們或許在外人看來光鮮亮麗,但內裏都承載著一套復雜而沉重的生存哲學。這種筆觸的冷峻與犀利,使得整部作品的批判性力量得到瞭極大的提升,它沒有采取激烈的口號式控訴,而是通過主人公細膩且日益偏執的內心獨白,將結構性的壓迫感不動聲色地傳遞給讀者。每一次對外界禮儀和期待的順從,都伴隨著內心對自我價值的進一步損耗,這種內在消耗的描繪,極其真實且令人心痛。它迫使我思考,在那些看似進步的錶象之下,我們是否仍然在沿用著舊有的框架來衡量和定義“成功”或“正常”。
评分從結構上看,這部作品的敘事如同某種迷宮,充滿瞭迴溯、岔路和封閉的循環,精準地映射瞭人物精神狀態的波動。故事的推進並非綫性的,而是跟隨主人公情緒的潮起潮落而進行,這要求讀者必須保持高度的專注,去跟隨那些看似不連貫的思緒碎片,纔能最終拼湊齣全景。特彆是當故事進入到後半段,那種近乎失控的、碎片化的敘述方式,將讀者一同拖入瞭那種被時間感和現實感拋棄的境地。我能真切地感受到那種“正在發生”的緊迫感和混亂感,仿佛自己也一同在邊緣徘徊,分不清什麼是夢境,什麼是真實。這種實驗性的結構安排,極大地增強瞭文本的藝術感染力,它超越瞭傳統小說的範疇,更像是一種意識流的藝術實踐,證明瞭文學形式可以服務於最深層的心理挖掘。
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。
评分讀不下去
评分“the feminist novel in a Salinger mood...”
评分whining, touchy, gloomy, jumps a lot, simply not my type of read. 《鍾形罩》
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。
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