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Un relato inedito de Sylvia Plath. Edicion ilustrada de una historia alegorica y oscura sobre la liberacion femenina.
Mary se despide de sus padres en la estacion. Tiene que coger un tren con destino a un misterioso noveno reino, aunque ella no se siente preparada para viajar y dejar su familia atras. Finalmente, ante las insistencias de sus padres, sube, y entabla conversacion 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 detras de cada linea de dialogo y detras de los enigmaticos razonamientos de esa mujer que acompana a Mary en su viaje de descubrimiento, terror y liberacion. Sylvia Plath escribio este escalofriante relato cuando tenia veinte anos; una maravillosa muestra del talento de la autora, que mas tarde aplicaria 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.
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Un relato inedito de Sylvia Plath. Edicion ilustrada de una historia alegorica y oscura sobre la liberacion femenina.
Mary se despide de sus padres en la estacion. Tiene que coger un tren con destino a un misterioso noveno reino, aunque ella no se siente preparada para viajar y dejar su familia atras. Finalmente, ante las insistencias de sus padres, sube, y entabla conversacion 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 detras de cada linea de dialogo y detras de los enigmaticos razonamientos de esa mujer que acompana a Mary en su viaje de descubrimiento, terror y liberacion. Sylvia Plath escribio este escalofriante relato cuando tenia veinte anos; una maravillosa muestra del talento de la autora, que mas tarde aplicaria 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.