Sylvia Plath nació en Boston en 1932. En 1950 entró en el prestigioso Smith College para cursar literatura: era una alumna ejemplar, brillante (ya publicaba poemas y relatos en diversas revistas), que ambicionaba ser popular y, sin embargo, en 1953 protagonizo un intento de suicidio. Dos años despues, se graduo y obtuvo una beca Fulbright para ampliar estudios en la Universidad de Cambridge (Reino Unido). Alli conocio al tambien poeta Ted Hughes, con quien se caso y tuvo dos hijos; seis años despues se separaban. En 1963, Sylvia Plath se suicido en su piso de Londres. En vida publico el libro de poemas El coloso (1960) y la novela autobiografica La campana de cristal (1963). Tras su muerte aparecieron Ariel (1965) y Cruzando el agua (1971). En 1981, la edicion de su Poesia completa merecio el premio Pulitzer. La presente seleccion quiere dar a conocer al lector de habla castellana poemas no traducidos previamente o que no estaban al alcance del gran publico de una de las voces clave de la poesia del siglo XX. Encuadernacion: rustica.
Plath's poetry is characterized by bold metaphors, heightened language, and violent imagery. Intensely autobiographical, they detail her angry struggles with her own mental disturbances and with the
Sylvia Plath's correspondence, addressed chiefly to her mother, from her time at Smith College in the early 1950s up to her suicide in London in February 1963. In addition to her capacity for domestic and writerly happiness, these letters also hint at her potential for deep despair. One wonders just how fully or well this prolix collection of letters, written primarily to Sylvia Plath's mother - editor Aurelia Schober Plath who also contributes a commentary - will serve as autobiography, as amplification, or as anything except externalization of details on that short life which ended with a posthumous question mark. Here Mrs. Plath, claiming some 'sort of psychic osmosis' with her daughter, clearly plays a most devoted role and for the first two thirds of this voluble confessional, Sylvia seems to be writing to her on a girlish high. The letters (those to her brother really say more) are effusive with wonderfuls and thrillings and 'How can I bear the joy of it all.' Even later after her marriage to Ted Hughes they embarrass - 'everything I do with and for Ted has a celestial radiance.' In between, they are a documentary of her work from poems to short stories to the infrequently mentioned novels (including the one she intended as a 'potboiler') and the increasing recognition both she and Ted received with publication, grants, teaching positions, etc., etc. Then come the difficult times (excluded from the Letters Home) when Sylvia was raddled by the two children, the miscarriage in between, the attrition of her creativity, and the harassments of the simple domesticity she used to enjoy and the babies she still loved. After the separation/divorce, Sylvia indicates that she is determined to survive alone, securing the flat in Yeats' house, buying clothes and a new fashionable exterior. (One wonders whether Alvarez' contention that she ended her life 'carelessly and by mistake' might not be right.) But there are those darker moments when she wrote - feverishly - the final poems which would be 'the best poems of my life, they will make my name.' For the most part the correspondence is a less than revealing testimony (her admiration of Ted is unbounded; later after the 'hurtful' time, almost the only allusion, her discretion is absolute), but there will be many to read it - not only th
Brillante studentessa di provincia vincitrice del soggiorno offerto da una rivista di moda, a New York Esther si sente come un cavallo da corsa in un mondo senza piste. Intorno a lei, l'America spietata, borghese e maccartista degli anni Cinquanta: una vera e propria campana di vetro che nel proteggerla le toglie a poco a poco l'aria. L'alternativa sara abbandonarsi al fascino soave della morte o lasciarsi invadere la mente dalle onde azzurre dell'elettroshock. Fortemente autobiografico, La campana di vetro narra con agghiacciante semplicita le insipienze, le crudelta incoscienti, gli assurdi tabu che spezzano un'adolescenza presa nell'ingranaggio stritolante della normalita che ignora la poesia. Include sei poesie da "Ariel
Un relato inédito de Sylvia Plath, la escritora que sigue fascinando generación tras generación, ilustrado por Mònica Bonet y con epílogo de MarianaEnriquez.Labios del color de la sangre, el sol torn
Relato de humor que muestra que hay que saber afrontar los prejuicios.Max vive en el pueblecito de Winkelburg con sus padres. Desea con toda sus fuerzas tener un traje. No un traje corriente, sino un traje que sirva para todo.Max Nix vive con sus padres y sus seis hermanos en un pequeño pueblo de montaña. Es feliz, pero tiene un deseo incumplido: le encantaria tener un traje que valiera para todos los dias de la semana. Un dia, la familia recibe un extraño paquete y, cuando lo abren, resulta que es un estupendo traje de color amarillo mostaza. Papa Nix se lo prueba y le va perfecto. Pero, de repente, le da miedo que sus compañeros de trabajo se burlen de el. Asi que mama Nix lo arregla para el hijo mayor. A este le ocurre exactamente igual y le traspasa el traje al hermano que le sigue en edad. A todos les sucede lo mismo y el traje va pasando de mano en mano, hasta que, por fin, llega a Max, que se lo pone a todas horas. Nadie en el pueblo se burla de el ni le dice nada.
