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Die Glasglocke

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An edition of The Bell Jar (1963)

Die Glasglocke

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Vor 50 Jahren erschien die amerikanische Erstausgabe der Glasglocke, Sylvia Plaths einzigem Roman – vier Wochen später nahm Plath sich das Leben. Ihr Roman avancierte bald zum Kult, beschrieb er doch wie kein Buch zuvor die Stimmungslage junger Frauen, ihre Zerrissenheit angesichts gesellschaftlicher Anforderungen.

»Es war ein verrückter, schwüler Sommer, dieser Sommer, in dem die Rosenbergs auf den elektrischen Stuhl kamen und ich nicht wusste, was ich in New York eigentlich wollte«: Die neunzehnjährige Esther gewinnt eine vierwöchige Hospitanz bei einem Modemagazin in New York, garniert mit Partyeinladungen und Werbegeschenken. Doch Esther, bisher strebsame Studentin, kann sich weder in den Arbeitsalltag so recht einfinden noch die Verlockungen der Stadt genießen. Sie fühlt sich, als lebte sie unter einer Glasglocke, die sie mehr und mehr von allem trennt …

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Suhrkamp Verlag
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German
Pages
262

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Subjects
women college students, summer, Classics, Literature, Psychology, Feminism, Novel, Poetry, Mental Health, American, Adult, Fiction, Mental Depression, Suicidal behavior, Mentally ill, Psychiatric hospital patients, Mental illness, Women authors, Treatment, Women periodical editors, College students, Suicide, Psychological fiction, Autobiographical fiction, Roman à clef, open_syllabus_project, Women psychotherapy patients, Fiction, psychological, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Young women, fiction, Students, fiction, Children's fiction, Depression, mental, fiction, Fiction, biographical, Fiction, general, New york (n.y.), fiction, American literature, Interns, Women's periodicals, Electroconvulsive therapy, Sexism, Depression in women, Authors
People
Esther Greenwood, Buddy Willard, Betsy, Constantin, DeeDee, Doctor Gordon, Doctor Nolan, Dodo Conway
Places
New York City, Adirondacks, Boston, United States, Belsize
Times
1953, 1950s

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Die Glasglocke
2013, Suhrkamp Verlag
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The Bell Jar
2006, Harper Perennial
Trade Paperback in English - P.S. Edition; 1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics Edition (7)
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The Bell Jar
2003, HarperLargePrint
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The Bell Jar
2003, Perennial Classics
Paperback in English - 25th Anniversary Edition, 1st Perennial Classics ed. (25)
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The Bell Jar
1996, HarperCollins Publishers, Harper
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The Bell Jar
1981 08, Bantam Books
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The Bell Jar
1981 08, Bantam Books
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The Bell Jar
1976-09, Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback in Spanish - Bantam Edition, 22nd printing
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The Bell Jar
1972 November, Bantam
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1972 November, Bantam Books
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Published in
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Copyright Date
1997
Translation Of
The Bell Jar
Translated From
English

Contributors

Translator
Reinhard Kaiser
Foreword
Alissa Walser

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Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
262

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The Bell Jar is the only novel written by American poet Sylvia Plath. It is an intensely realistic and emotional record of a successful and talented young woman's descent into madness.

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IT WAS A QUEER, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
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