
Sylvia Plath
A Biography
No se pudo agregar al carrito
Add to Cart failed.
Error al Agregar a Lista de Deseos.
Error al eliminar de la lista de deseos.
Error al añadir a tu biblioteca
Error al seguir el podcast
Error al dejar de seguir el podcast
3 meses gratis
Compra ahora por $17.19
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrado por:
-
Xe Sands
Sylvia Plath is widely recognized as one of the outstanding poets of the 20th century. When her Collected Poems was published it won the Pulitzer Prize. Her only published novel, The Bell Jar, has become a modern classic.
Because Plath drew so heavily on her own life in both her poetry and her fiction, the outlines of her life are familiar to listeners. But, like most writers, Plath changed the facts of her life in her writing. In her determination to be both wife and mother, on the one hand, and teacher and writer on the other, Plath tried simultaneously to fulfill and to fight the conventions that bound women in the 1950s. In this biography, the first to draw on unpublished journals and letters recently made available, Linda Wagner-Martin examines the ironies and contradictions of Sylvia Plath's life, as well as her achievements.
©1987 Linda Wagner-Martin (P)2020 TantorListeners also enjoyed...




















The book was a good overview of Plath’s life. I also recently listened to a biography about Shirley Jackson, and that book in combination with this one, just really drives home for me how these talented mid-century women had to labor under the suffocating expectations and restrictions of a patriarchal culture. Both of them had inadequate mental and physical health care, and had to put up with absolute GARBAGE men.
I haven’t read anything by Plath in awhile, and this book made me want to go back and read more works by her.
My only complaint is that I wish it could have been a bit longer, and had time to delve more into their social circle, and more of her writings. As is mentioned in the forward, Hughes exercised so much control over her work posthumously, that there is much we don’t know about her last days.
A fairly brief, but interesting overview of Plath’s life
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Good Overview
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.