【英语原版下载】The Bell Jar [瓶中美人]

                
                
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The Bell Jar is American writer and poet Sylvia Plath's only novel, which was originally published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" in 1963.The novel was published under Plath's name for the first time in 1966 and was not published in the United States until 1972, pursuant to the wishes of Plath's ex-husband Ted Hughes and her mother.
Plath was an excellent poet but is known to many for this largely autobiographical novel. The Bell Jar tells the story of a gifted young woman's mental breakdown beginning during a summer internship as a junior editor at a magazine in New York City in the early 1950s. The real Plath committed suicide in 1963 and left behind this scathingly sad, honest and perfectly-written book,which remains one of the best-told tales of a woman's descent into insanity.
透过故事主角艾瑟‧葛林伍德，女诗人普拉丝以动人的意象，宛如诗篇的文字，揭露了几欲令人窒息的成长经验。
十九岁的艾瑟即将远离校园，踏入社会；她才华洋溢、功课优秀，又有机会到纽约时尚杂志担任实习编辑，年轻的生命正要展现新的色彩。然而周遭女友放浪行骸，无法与她契合心性，憧憬的爱情也只不过是一场欺骗的游戏，连创作生涯也因申请写作班遭拒而顿失重心，虚无感自四面八方袭来，生命只剩下一连串无意义的动作。艾瑟犹如脆弱的天使，纯净的心灵无法负荷人世的虚伪与不平，所以冷眼看人，更自残羽翼。她终日晃荡，生活不知以何为继…
此书出版后一个月，普拉丝本人，这位旷世才情的女诗人即自杀身亡。
Author: Sylvia Plath
普拉丝（Sylvia Plath）美国人，生于1932年。少女时代即发表诗作和短篇故事，屡得诗奖，颇受文坛瞩目。1963年普拉丝自杀身亡，使她的人生和作品蒙上神秘的色彩，更被莫名地冠上女姓性主义先锋的光环。终其一生普拉丝饱受抑郁之苦，此书是她唯一的小说著作，自传色彩浓厚，后人也多以此为代表作。普拉丝的死因，常被世人简化成和其诗人丈夫泰德‧休斯〈Ted Hughes〉之间的情感纠葛。在《瓶中美人》中，普拉丝深入剖析自己精神层面，究竟使她厌世的是两性关系，还是忧郁症，或者是诗人的死欲，读者可自行在文中寻找真相。
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