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...Sagan's style isn't always consistent or striking, it seems, at least, pretty much her own. When she wedges the hard brutality of Nazi extermination camps between two lovers in their bed, you are tempted to compare her poetry with the self-punishing irony of Sylvia Plath, but you don't get very far before Sagan pulls up short, insisting, "and those things I will not look...
Comp Lit 108 deals with French, English, and American fiction and poetry with a historical perspective. The course treats women authors such as Marguerite de Navarre, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Colette, Sylvia Plath, and Lillian Hellman...
When Aurelia Plath told her eight-year-old daughter Sylvia that her father was dead, the child said, "I am never going to speak to God again." When she came home from school that day she presented her mother with an oath to be signed: "I promise never to marry again...
Little Bayonets. The book was also a painful blow to Aurelia Plath. Like all the other characters in The Bell Jar, the narrow-minded, hard-working mother is ferociously cartooned. Shortly before trying to kill herself, the heroine watches her sleeping, "the pin curls on her head glittering like a row of little bayonets...
Partly to adjust the image that the novel created of both mother and daughter, Mrs. Plath is publishing an edited edition of Sylvia's copious letters home, from the time she entered Smith College in 1950 until her death. The correspondence will not erase The Bell Jar -those caricatures are indelible. But they do give a different, lively, poignant picture of Sylvia...