Sylvia Plath's Letters

In these correspondences, after more than 55 years, we discover new details about the life of Plath, brilliant in her writings that address melancholy and overwhelming emotion. What fueled her literary talent was the reality of her lifelong struggle with depression, the loss of her father as a child, and her conflicting feelings about her mother who suffered from the same illness. The deeper aspect of these emotions is related to her relationship with her husband, the poet Ted Hughes, and her reactions and feelings upon discovering his affair with his mistress Assia Wevill, the repercussions of his abandonment of her and their two children, her transformation from a state of denial to anger, then to surrender and sad brokenness, and finally to absolute despair.

• Category: Thought and Philosophy

• Number of pages: 543 pages