Mary Ventura y el noveno reino / Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom

Mary Ventura y el noveno reino / Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom

by Sylvia Plath
Mary Ventura y el noveno reino / Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom

Mary Ventura y el noveno reino / Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom

by Sylvia Plath

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Overview

Un relato inédito de Sylvia Plath. Edición ilustrada de una historia alegórica y oscura sobre la liberación femenina.

Mary se despide de sus padres en la estación. Tiene que coger un tren con destino a un misterioso noveno reino, aunque ella no se siente preparada para viajar y dejar su familia atrás. Finalmente, ante las insistencias de sus padres, sube, y entabla conversación con una mujer mayor que parece haber hecho el mismo viaje muchas veces: algo realmente inusual. Lo que empieza como una historia inocente se convierte gradualmente en una pesadilla siniestra, donde el significado del viaje se adivina detrás de cada línea de diálogo y detrás de los enigmáticos razonamientos de esa mujer que acompaña a Mary en su viaje de descubrimiento, terror y liberación. Sylvia Plath escribió este escalofriante relato cuando tenía veinte años; una maravillosa muestra del talento de la autora, que más tarde aplicaría a sus poemas y a su novela, La campana de cristal.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Never before published, this newly discovered story by literary legend Sylvia Plath stands on its own and is remarkable for its symbolic, allegorical approach to a young woman’s rebellion against convention and forceful taking control of her own life.

Written while Sylvia Plath was a student at Smith College in 1952, Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom tells the story of a young woman’s fateful train journey.

Lips the color of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like “guilt, and guilt, and guilt”: these are just some of the things Mary Ventura begins to notice on her journey to the ninth kingdom.

“But what is the ninth kingdom?” she asks a kind-seeming lady in her carriage. “It is the kingdom of the frozen will,” comes the reply. “There is no going back.”

Sylvia Plath’s strange, dark tale of female agency and independence, written not long after she herself left home, grapples with mortality in motion.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9788439736356
Publisher: PRH Grupo Editorial
Publication date: 01/21/2020
Pages: 96
Product dimensions: 4.54(w) x 7.75(h) x 0.42(d)
Language: Spanish

About the Author

One of the most influential poets, novelists, and short story writers of the 20th century, Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was credited with advancing "confessional poetry." Her semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar was published shortly before her suicide. In 1982, she won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for The Collected Poems. Plath married the poet Ted Hughes in 1956 and they had two children. They separated in 1962, shortly before her death.

Date of Birth:

October 27, 1932

Date of Death:

February 11, 1963

Place of Birth:

Boston, Massachusetts

Place of Death:

London, England

Education:

B.A., Smith College, 1955; Fulbright Scholar, Cambridge University
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