The Bell Jar -

Sylvia Plath

Everyman's Library

1998

320 páginas

10h 40m

ISBN-13: 9780375404634

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.

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A redoma de vidro, Sylvia Plath – Nota 10/10

Com um forte toque autobiográfico, Sylvia Plath nos apresenta um romance extremamente profundo e perturbador. A narrativa aborda a juventude de Esther e os acontecimentos que a levaram à internação em uma clínica psiquiátrica. Ao longo do livro, e do desenvolvimento da gravíssima depressão que acomete a protagonista, o leitor é sugado para dentro dos pensamentos e angústias da protagonista, acompanhando de perto a solidão de dentro da "redoma de vidro" em que passa a viver. Um livro que nos faz refletir muito, trazendo temas delicados como a depressão e o suicídio e, principalmente, sobre o doloroso processo que é crescer. Também fiquei impressionado com a escrita poética da autora.