by Sylvia Plath · Random House · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439736349
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The Bell Jar is a novel by Sylvia Plath. This edition features a new translation by Eugenia Vázquez Nacarino and a prologue by Aixa de la Cruz, offering a new feminist perspective. The story follows Esther Greenwood, a young woman with a promising career in New York in the 1950s, whose life begins to fall apart as she faces a society that rejects female aspirations. Trapped in her own mind, Esther feels isolated, as if she were inside a bell jar, breathing stale air with no escape.
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 The Collected Poems was published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works.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.
