The Journals of Sylvia Plath

Name: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
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Author: Sylvia Plath
ISBN: 9780385493918

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Sylvia Plath’s journals open a window into the fierce creative engine that powered her writing, beginning with her near‑daily entries at Smith College. She treated her diary as a private workshop—her “Sargasso,” a place where dreams, commands and raw ideas gathered—holding the earliest sparks of much of her later work.

Across these pages, Plath’s ambition burns with intensity: chaotic, consuming, and often painful. Her journals capture both the desperation she battled and the courage with which she confronted her inner turmoil, written in prose that feels electric even now. The Journals of Sylvia Plath remain an essential, intimate record for anyone drawn to her life, her art and the brilliance that defined her.

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Author: Sylvia Plath
Language: Angļu valoda
Year of publication: 1998
Manufacturer: Bantam Books
Cover type: Soft cover
Number of pages: 400
product.Svars: 0.342 kg
ISBN code: 9780385493918

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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. Written in electrifying prose, The Journals of Sylvia Plath provide unique insight, and are essential reading for all those who have been moved and fascinated by Plath’s life and work.