♥ Les lectures de Sylvia Plath ♥

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Journal - Nuit du 20 au 21 Septembre 1952

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Journal - 29 Janvier 1953

"i am reading 'Ulysses'. god it is unbelievably semantically big, great, mind cracking, and even webster's is a sterile impotent enuch as far as conceiving word goes..."

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Plath wrote her college thesis on Dostoevsky’s The Double, a novella about a man at odds with his doppelgänger. “Dostoevsky, who is to me in intellectual writing what Dylan is to me in emotional lyricizing,” she told a boyfriend in March 1954.

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“I’ll never get over the experience of reading The Idiot and Brothers Karamazov and fear that I shall walk around carrying the much-underlined books in a small satchel and quoting voluminously from them at the slightest provocation.”

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Mai 1954

"It is psychologically difficult to finish War & Peace in the middle of the afternoon and instead of going on a fine, stellar, wine-cellar binge, to pick up 950 pages of microscopically printed Anna Karenina, and proceed without even a coffee break."

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Juillet 1954 (correspondance avec le professeur Melvin Woody)

"Except for the bullfighting and fishing episodes, I find [it] different from the avalanche of sexily covered hardtalking paperbound books only because of the name hemingway on the cover…his short stories, esp. “hills like white elephants” and “the snows” are muchly superior to his novels, I think."

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"there is miraculously no one like fitzgerald for describing the atmosphere of a cocktail party…no, not even eliot!"

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Journal - 20 Février 1956

"And we stayed up till two last night virtuously reading Macbeth. Which was fine."

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09.03.1956

"[...] bought lots of books by Huxley: the most recent about 'HEaven and Hell': of antipodes in mind: reached under hypnosis or mescalin."

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Mars 1956

"was immensely moved by it" (correspondance avec la poétesse Lynne Lawner)

"In October 1960, she told her mother that her birthday that year might have been her best ever. She received a pair of red slippers lined in wool, plastic overshoes (two pairs, one for heels), pink champagne, and a chicken pie. She also received a new edition of The Lord of the Rings for her and her daughter to read together, and 'three wonderful slabs of strange cheeses for us to test. A gooey ripe brie, a superbly moldy blue stilton & a fat round Wensleydale in a cloth sack all its own.'"

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“started off the cast of characters that moves, enlarges, and immensifies in these books: I confess it moves me more than the Odyssey, or, for that matter, any epic I can think of at the moment.”

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Octobre 1956 (lettre à Ted Hughes)

"I feel very strangely about him for some reason; I am sure insanity is the most necessary state of a fine artist—that “divine madness” where the terror & piercing insights he has daily are not locked in retreat or raving but made into works of art; a kind of flickering wild light of susceptibility playing over psychic states which, if frozen, become intolerable and result in madness. I wish I knew more about j.d. salinger."

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Mars 1957 (correspondance avec sa mère)

“although my book reads more like a slick best-seller than anything. Her moods & neuroses are amazing. You must read this diary. Most illuminating.”

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23 Février 1958

“from coffee till teatime at six, I read Lady Chatterley’s Lover, drawn back again with the joy of a woman living with her own gamekeeper, and Women in Love & Sons & Lovers. Love, love: why do I feel I would have known & loved Lawrence—how many women must feel this & be wrong!”

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Journal - 22 Avril 1958

"ironically, Henry James’ biography comforts me & I long to make known to him his posthumous reputation—he wrote, in pain, gave all his life (which is more than I could think of doing—I have Ted, will have children—but few friends) & the critics insulted & mocked him, readers didn't read him. I am made, crudely, for success. Does failure whet my blade?"

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