Karen Christensen - How to live, how to love?
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Since Sylvia Plath's death in 1963, she has become the subject of an unceasing succession of books, biographies, and articles. She has been hailed as a groundbreaking poet for her starkly beautiful poems in Ariel, and as a brilliant forerunner of the feminist coming of age novel in her semi-autobiographical The Bell Jar. The literature about her has expressed a wide range of opinions about the causes of her suicide—often tied to the breakup of her marriage to Ted Hughes. Each new biography has offered new i
Biographical narratives, because they are designed as stories, inevitably discard many precious details and the feel of what it is like to live day by day. This is especially true in Sylvia Plath's case because she began writing diaries at the age of twelve, and for many of her days, months, and years, she kept calendars and journals full of details that no narrative biography can possibly include. Volume 1 commences with Platt's birth in Boston in 1932, records her response to her elementary and high schoo
Karen Christensen - How to live, how to love?