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Janet Malcolm has produced a brilliant, elegantly reasoned meditation on the art of biography, in which she takes as her example the various biographies of the poet Sylvia Plath. <i>The Silent Woman</i> is an astonishing feat of criticism and literary detection. It is not a book about the life of Sylvia Plath, but about her afterlife: how her reputation was forged from the poems she wrote just before her suicide; how her estranged husband, the poet Ted Hughes, as executor of her estate, tried to serve two masters - Plath's art and his own need for privacy; and how it fell to his sister, Olwyn Hughes, as literary agent for the estate, to protect him by limiting access to Plath's work. <i>The Silent Woman</i>, in the end, embodies a paradox: even as Malcolm brings her skepticism to bear on the claims of biography to present the truth about a life, a portrait of Sylvia Plath emerges that gives us a sense of "knowing" this tragic poet in a way we have never known her before. The result is a provocative work that will dispel forever the innocence with which most of us have approached the reading of any biography. It will be talked about for years to come. <p>Fro

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Author

Malcolm, Janet

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf Distributed by Random House

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679751403

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

4.03 / 5 (15 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13