by Elizabeth Winder
Exquisite and an inspired idea to write about this month Plath spend at Mademoiselle. I doubt anyone could have written it better than Winder. She catches the spirit of the story expertly and conveys it in words so carefully chosen and perfect that her background as a poet is obvious. Lovely.
Oh my god, this book is FANTASTIC!
Elizabeth Winder tries to re-imagine the Sylvia Plath narrative in Pain, Parties, Work. We know the side of Plath who is portrayed as an unstable and persecuted woman who is brilliant but cannot handle her own creative impulse. Winder argues that Plath's summer internship as a guest editor at Mademo...
Moments can define us. I read this biography right after having read The Bell Jar. Since The Bell Jar is semi-autobiographical, I am led to believe that Plath was a young woman of the 1950s, with hopes, dreams and ambition but who succumbed to a depression and became mired in it. It was interesting ...
The experience of a book is shaped by the reader: what she feels, thinks, values, believes, has experienced, wants to experience. Some books come with more baggage than others.Sylvia Plath is a figure for whom I have intense, tangled feelings; any book I read by her or of her is seen through the ma...
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