"And yet when we think of Plath's death at dawn in an indifferent London it is homely Massachusetts that somehow comes back into view. The idea of death far away from home has a special pathos; embedded in it is the fantasy that the foreign place contributed to the death, perhaps was even the cause of it. Foreignness is threatening, dangerous: if only he or she had stayed home and not drunk that water, not taken that ancient bus over the pass, never ventured into that evil café."
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Janet Malcolm "The Silent Woman [part one"] The New Yorker (August 23, 1993)
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Sylvia Plath
1932 – 1963
US-amerikanische Dichterin und Schriftstellerin
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