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English Summary/英文概要： February 1963, London. A young mother
commits suicide by shoving her head into her gas
oven. The woman, Sylvia Plath, was a poet. She
was said to have been driven to despair by her
husband’s betrayals.
At a Cme when women are seeking to break free
from the stranglehold that is suffocaCng them,
Sylvia is set up as a symbol by feminists. Despite
herself. Because the desCny of this comet-like
woman, haunted by darkness, is far more
complex.
Under Ananda Devi’s empatheCc pen, we follow
the verCginous descent into hell of this cursed
couple. All the way to absolute dazzlement.
Awards/获奖情况： • By the laureate of the Neustadt Prize 2024
• Neither a biography, nor a novel, nor an essay
on Sylvia Plath, but all of these at once
• A poetic work steeped in dark lyricism, yet
powerfully illuminating
Winner of Grand Prix de l’Heroine Madame Figaro 2023
Praise for Ananda Devi’s work:
“Ananda Devi’s precise, powerful pen, steeped in dark lyricism, slips
into Sylvia and Ted’s footsteps, as if possessed by them, and ‘climbs
the shadows’ to seek an echo of her own in the dazzling, tragic
trajectory of a woman who wanted to be everything — mother, wife
and poet in a world dominated by men.” Madame Figaro
“Ananda Devi is not aiming at the individual but at the writer, the
woman who lives for and through literature, in literature (...) This
quest is reflected in her beauJful poeJc wriJng and parJcularly
original form.” Diacritik
“One has to read Sylvia P. to enter Sylvia and Ted’s painful existence,
but more than that, one has to read it for Ananda Devi’s poetic
breath of inexhausJble force.” Mondafriques
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About the Author/作者介绍： Ananda Devi (b. 1957)
was born in Mauritius
and has become one of
the world’s major literary
voices with over twentyfive
books, including
novels, collections of
poetry, short stories, and
essays. Published in
France by Gallimard, Grasset and Bruno Doucey,
she has been translated into over a dozen languages
and has received numerous literary prizes and
decorations, with the French title of Officier des
Arts et des Lettres in 2010. In 2014 she received
the Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la
littérature françaises from the Académie française.
She was also awarded the 2023 Prix de la langue
française and the 2024 Neustadt International Prize
for Literature. The University of Silesia, Poland,
conferred upon her a doctorate honoris causa. In
the UK, The Guardian recommended her novel
Eve out of Her Ruins among the hundred best
contemporary novels in translation by women
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