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Chargement... The Bell Jar (Modern Classics) (original 1963; édition 2005)par Sylvia Plath (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreLa Cloche de détresse par Sylvia Plath (1963)
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I have great respect for the way the theme of mental illness is harshly portrayed in this book, only I wish it had been a little less abrupt in its execution. Mental illness is a lifelong battle (I would know), and although I understand it wasn't always well understood (and still isn't, really), I just think Esther Greenwood a bit too spiteful in the handling of her situation. If she were a more active participant in her healing, she might have met with better results. Durante más o menos la mitad de la novela, uno no entiende por qué es tan famosa. Parecen las aventurillas de una chica que, gracias a una beca, consigue pasar del Medio Oeste a una universidad-residencia de "señoritas bien" de Nueva York, y las cosas que le pasan, básicamente relacionadas con los hombres y las fiestas. Pero, sin muchas explicaciones, al finalizar el curso la protagonista parece haber entrado en una depresión que rápidamente deriva en auténtica enfermedad mental, A partir de ahí la novela cambia y se me ha hecho mucho más sugestiva. Ella afirma sentirse como en una "campana de cristal" que impide toda comunicación efectiva con el exterior. Oye y entiende perfectamente lo que le dicen, y también habla con normalidad con los demás, pero, de algún modo, no consigue transmitir lo que de verdad siente a nadie. Le someten a una dura terapia de electroshock que le deja peor, pero luego cambia de psiquiatra y la nueva (el primero era un hombre) combina esta técnica con un trato más razonable y otros tratamientos para que, al final, la "campana" se levante y se quede como suspendida por encima de la protagonista, que puede así comunicarse verdaderamente con su entorno. La novela es en gran medida autobiográfica y, por lo visto, lo de las terapias de choque causó mucho impacto en su momento, hacia mitad de los años 50, porque estaban muy de moda en Estados Unidos. Hoy no nos impresiona tanto, porque la autora no narra las sesiones, sino que apenas alude a ellas. También pasa por ser esta una novela feminista pero, más allá de algunos comentarios más o menos circunstanciales y más o menos agudos tampoco me ha parecido que eso sea lo importante. Lo que más me ha gustado es el tratamiento de la enfermedad mental desde la propia enferma, que generalmente tampoco sabe muy bien qué demonios está pasando. Not what I was expecting at all! Way more fun (except of course for some parts) and exceptionally good. The novel is in two parts, the first is a bit like a very Americanised version of writers like Penelope Lively set in 1950's New York, and later Boston. Witty, droll, brilliant Esther begins her tale as an intern at a fashion magazine in New York, going out to fabulous dinners and parties. Esther observes the world and the people around her with cutting insight and takes it all as natural, its privilege doesn’t seem to occur to her. There is very little other than what seemed perfectly normal misgivings for such a brilliant mind in the first half of the novel, along with cutting insight into societal and corporate burdens on women. Men do not fare well in general, all of the strong characters and positive roles are women, though not all women fare well. The end of this NY period, some uncertainties, and a period of prolonged insomnia trigger a rapid and terrifying onset of mental illness; the decent of the bell jar. The second story, essentially the entire the second half of the novel, describes the illness, inept and barbaric ‘treatment’, and an incredibly fortunate rescue from these circumstances. Lobotomies and electroshock were the tools of the times, even a nurse Rached type character has a cameo. As our heroine slowly recovers you can feel her wit, sauciness and piecing intellect reemerging from the frozen fog. It is told by our narrator describing her past, so even in the darkest times is very calm and if anything told in a mildly curious tone, as though more amazed by what she went through rather than torn up by it. Just an amazing read from such a tragic shooting star. 4.5
Esther Greenwood's account of her year in the bell jar is as clear and readable as it is witty and disturbing. It makes for a novel such as Dorothy Parker might have written if she had not belonged to a generation infected with the relentless frivolity of the college- humor magazine. The brittle humor of that early generation is reincarnated in "The Bell Jar," but raised to a more serious level because it is recognized as a resource of hysteria. Appartient à la série éditorialeAntípoda (41) Bibliothek Suhrkamp (1221) — 7 plus Harper Perennial Olive Editions (2009 Olive) Lanterne (L 307) Rainbow pocketboeken (76) A tot vent (368) Fait l'objet d'une adaptation dansEst en version abrégée dansContient une étude deContient un commentaire de texte deContient un guide de lecture pour étudiantPrix et récompensesDistinctionsListes notables
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The talent of Sylvia Plath was going to be constrained in the narrowly defined options for women of her time . . . and she knew it. Quotations in the comments section are my exact kindle highlights. ( )