by Sylvia Plath · Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788435015738
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The Bell Jar is the only novel by the renowned American poet Sylvia Plath. Originally published in 1963, the novel tells the story of Esther Greenwood, a young woman who wins a scholarship to work at a fashion magazine in New York during the summer of 1953. As the summer progresses, Esther becomes increasingly disillusioned and alienated, and begins to suffer a nervous breakdown that leads to her being admitted to a psychiatric hospital. The novel explores themes such as female identity, mental health, and the social expectations of women in the 1950s.
Sylvia Plath was an American poet and author. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965), and The Bell Jar (1963), a semi-autobiographical novel published one month before her suicide. The Collected Poems was published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works. For this collection Plath was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1982, making her the fourth person to receive this honor posthumously.
