The Journals of Sylvia Plath

Author: Plath, Sylvia

Brand: ANCHOR BOOKS

Color: Black

Edition: Abridged

Binding: paperback

Format: Abridged

Number Of Pages: 400

Release Date: 11-05-1998

Part Number: 9780385493918

Details: The electrifying diaries that are essential reading for anyone moved and fascinated by the life and work of one of America's most acclaimed poets.

Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a young child. By the time she was at Smith College, when this book begins, she had settled into a nearly daily routine with her journal, which was also a sourcebook for her writing. Plath once called her journal her “Sargasso,” her repository of imagination, “a litany of dreams, directives, and imperatives,” and in fact these pages contain the germs of most of her work. Plath’s ambitions as a writer were urgent and ultimately all-consuming, requiring of her a heat, a fantastic chaos, even a violence that burned straight through her. The intensity of this struggle is rendered in her journal with an unsparing clarity, revealing both the frequent desperation of her situation and the bravery with which she faced down her demons.

EAN: 9780385493918

Package Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.5 inches

Languages: English