The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath: Transcripts from the Original Manuscripts at Smith College

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She was a Fulbright Scholar in Cambridge, England, and married British poet Ted Hughes in London in 1956. It is because of this that I maintain that Plath was brilliant and that she created her final poems with genius. One sees the struggles she endured, in her daily life, as an imperfect person in the pursuit of her art. Ta presja społeczna, którą Plath czuje, to jak próbuje się wyrwać, a jednocześnie chce trzymać się utartych dla kobiet ścieżek zarówno w niej jak i we mnie podczas lektury budziła frustrację i poczucie niesprawiedliwości. Hers is an obsession with living, with creativity and success, and it is this that makes her such an irresistible figure.

I don't know if I found her or if she found me, all I know is that we have always belonged together. KUKIL is Associate Curator of Rare Books at Smith College, with particular responsibility for superervising scholarly use of the Sylvia Plath Collection. Her feminist words of before were somehow not put into action, and she became rather submissive and accepting too much of his behavior and betrayals. Moreover, given the control he exercised over Plath's work after her death, it would not be entirely unfounded to suspect Hughes of tampering even with those journals which he released for publication. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes.Her conception of her own femininity and wholeness sees a subtle shift in later years, post her affair with Richard Sassoon and her marrying Ted Hughes, but she continues to assert her talents while balancing her role as a wife. My demon of negation will tempt me day by day, and I'll fight it, as something other than my essential self, which I am fighting to save: each day will have something to recommend it. Tym, którzy chcieliby zajrzeć do głowy jednej z najlepszych i jednocześnie najbardziej tajemniczych pisarek ubiegłego wieku i tym, którzy będą potrafili zrozumieć jej potrzebę kompulsywnego pisania o wszystkim, nawet o tym, co może wydawać się nieistotne. Dostajemy zatem ogromne ściany tekstu przepełnione opisami zwykłych przedmiotów, szkice nigdy nieukończonych powieści, długie listy imion, które Plath chciała nadać bohaterom swoich kolejnych tekstów. They allow us to see the methodical revisions, the many thoughtful ways in which she crafted her poems.

There is too a sense of Plath boxing herself into her role as a wife and internalising a sense of lack, often seeking to synthesise the creative energy of the womb with that emanating from her pen. The editors have done their absolute best to bridge the holes with letters (when available), journal “fragments,” footnotes and a rather extensive appendix.Nigdy w życiu nie czytałam żadnej książki tak długo, ale trudnością nie była wcale objętość „Dzienników”, a raczej mnogość akapitów wymagających czasu i porządnego przemyślenia. In some really severe hopeless moments, I found solace in the words of the person who, like everyone around us, was thrown into the real world with a really brute force. In the audio format, this is possible but complicated—you have to go back and forth between different parts. The journals are characterized by the vigorous immediacy with which she records her inner thoughts and feelings and the intricacies of her daily life. Nevertheless, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath is indeed a valuable volume for those who have been moved and fascinated by the legend of Plath.