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这本小说以作者早年生活经历为蓝本,叙述了19岁的大二女生埃斯特·
格林伍德经历了充当某知名杂志社的客座编辑、参加写作班被拒、自杀未遂、接受心理治疗、重树自信期待返回社会,展开新生活的一系列过程。本文从“榜样缺失”的角度出发,结合当时美国的实际,探讨埃斯特作为女性,在其成长过程中男性社会压抑下所产生的孤独、绝望与挣扎的心灵历程以及反抗的必然性。
全优女孩埃斯特成为某时尚杂志征文比赛获奖者,谁知道这是她噩梦的开始……普拉斯自传体小说《钟形罩》喜剧笔调下的本质是悲剧。人们拒绝认真对待一个女人丰富颤栗的情感,指望通过电休克疗法治愈心灵的绝望。事实上她已经令人恐惧地滑向疯狂的深渊。
普拉斯与另一位杰出诗人休斯的惊世恋情是二十世纪英美诗坛最大的公案,女诗人年仅三十岁便自杀自亡,她不曾预知自己会获得普利策奖,作品又极其畅销。虽然本书中“我”最终走出了黑暗,谁又能看透普拉斯本人内心的隐秘?
The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath''s only novel. Renowned for
its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing
boundaries between fiction and reality and helped to make Plath an
enduring feminist icon. It was published under a pseudonym a few
weeks before the author''s suicide.
''It is a fine novel, as bitter and remorseless as her last poems
. . . The world in which the events of the novel take place is a
world bounded by the Cold War on one side and the sexual war on the
other . . . This novel is not political nor historical in any
narrow sense, but in looking at the madness of the world and the
world of madness it forces us to consider the great question posed
by all truly realistic fiction: What is reality and how can it be
confronted? . . . Esther Greenwood''s account of her year in the
bell jar is as clear and readable as it is witty and disturbing.''
New York Times Book Review
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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。
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. 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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