Kattas reviewed The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar is the only novel written by the American writer and poet Sylvia …
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4 stars
I can see both the appeal of this book and why it achieved iconic status (and is especially chilling if you read it as a roman-a-clef), but I felt curiously detached as I read it. Something about the narrator's own detachment from the world around her makes the descriptions of even the most intense events feel cool and distant.