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The Bell Jar is one of the defining novels of the 20th century. I was supposed to be having the time of my life. Working as an intern for a New York fashion magazine in the summer of 1953, Esther Greenwood is on the brink of her future. Yet she is also on the edge of a darkness that makes her world increasingly unreal.
2 de ago. de 2005 · The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies.
The Bell Jar is a classic of American literature, with over two million copies sold in this country. This extraordinary work chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful - but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time.
Analysis: Chapters 1 & 2. Esther narrates The Bell Jar in girlish, slangy prose, sounding mature and detached mainly when speaking of her own morbidity and depression. The first sentence of the novel sets the tone: “It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.”.
'The Bell Jar' is a classic of American literature, with over two million copies sold in this country. This extraordinary work chronicles the crack-up 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 ...
Os anos subsequentes caracterizam-se por uma atividade intensa e disciplinada. Sylvia Plath produz então inúmeros contos e o romance onde recria a sua tentativa de suicídio, 'The Bell Jar' ('A Campânula de Vidro') que será publicado em janeiro de 1963, sob o pseudónimo de Victoria Lucas.
La campana de cristal. La campana de cristal (título original en inglés: The Bell Jar) es la única novela escrita por la poeta estadounidense Sylvia Plath. Con el seudónimo Victoria Lucas, fue publicada por primera vez por la Editorial Heinemann, en Inglaterra, en 1963. De manera póstuma, con el nombre real de la escritora, fue reeditada ...
