
by Sylvia Plath · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466359177
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The Bell Jar is a novel by Sylvia Plath, narrated from the perspective of Esther Greenwood, a young woman who experiences a deep emotional crisis while working at a fashion magazine in New York during the 1950s. The novel explores themes of mental health, the social expectations imposed on women, and the search for identity in a world that often feels oppressive. Through Esther's experience, Plath offers an intimate and moving look at the struggle against depression and alienation, making this work a modern classic and an essential reference in feminist literature.

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 The Collected Poems was published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works.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.