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The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
by Janet Malcolm
I struggled to finish this book. This is some of my favourite subject matter (the Plath estate, as well as biography as a genre and its limitations and difficulties) and yet I had to force myself through it. A little disappointed tbh. Although Malcolm makes brilliant observations and offers invaluable insight into the genre of biography, her style is just so dry.
At about p.183 things really started to pick up. I particularly enjoyed the final note on Malcolm's correspondence with Hughes over the US publication of The Bell Jar as an example of the problem of the omniscient biographer. It was artfully included and summed up her argument very neatly.
At about p.183 things really started to pick up. I particularly enjoyed the final note on Malcolm's correspondence with Hughes over the US publication of The Bell Jar as an example of the problem of the omniscient biographer. It was artfully included and summed up her argument very neatly.