Is it ever possible to know 'the truth' about Sylvia Plath and her marriage to Ted Hughes, which ended with her suicide? In The Silent Woman, Janet Malcolm (author of Reading Chekhov, The Journalist and the Murderer and In the Freud Archives) examines the biographies of Sylvia Plath, with particular focus on Anne Stevenson's Bitter Fame, to discover how Plath became an enigma in literary history. The Silent Woman is a brilliant, elegantly reasoned inquiry into the nature of biography, dispelling our innocence as readers, as well as shedding a light onto why Plath's legend continues to exert such a hold on our imaginations.

 

Details

ISBN: 9781783786237
Series: Granta Editions
Audience: General
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2 Apr 2020
Publisher: Granta Books
Publication City, Country: London, United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 19.7(H) x 13(L) x 1.7(W)
Weight (gm): 230

 

Author Biography

Janet Malcolm's books include Reading Chekhov, In the Freud Archives, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes and Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession. Born in Prague, she grew up in New York, where she now lives.