Considered a classic of contemporary American literature, The Bell Jar is the first and last novel by American poet Sylvia Plath. It traces a person's journey in search of identity, followed by psychological disturbances that can lead to madness.

Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar is published by Mesopotamia in a new translation of The Prayer of the Nucleus and as part of a distinguished collection of translated novels.

About the glass bell
A novel about a young poet contemplating suicide, written by a poet who had often contemplated suicide before carrying out her idea in the prime of her youth.

The shadow of horror created by the eternal misunderstanding between man and the world looms large over the pages of this novel, to the point where it seems as if we are dealing with others through glass.

No one can touch or feel anyone else, and there is a transparent but heavy layer separating us from each other, as if a person is left in existential isolation even while living in the bosom of others.

Yet the novel is not a record of describing the pains of isolation and depression, but rather a search for a new birth, and liberation from the captivity of our "glass bells." Some souls delve deeply into thoughts of death to reach life, just as darkness begs to reach the light.

Quote from The Bell Jar
Some souls delve deeply into thoughts of death to reach life, just as they plead with darkness to reach light.