Reviews for The buried self

The average rating for The buried self based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-04-07 00:00:00 Magali Rey-le Lorier A poetic novelisation of the romance between Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-03-13 00:00:00 Jamie Schmale Odd book. All mood, very few events: it was like this, and it was like that, and years did pass somehow... reading it was like eating whipped skim milk. Depressing and compelling, but hardly a narrative; more a meditation, or an enormously stretched out poem. The imagery was poetic, and the few details: the scarlet headband, the table, the hand under the tap holding a knife. Fairy tales. Perhaps because it was based on real people, and she had few definite events to deal with? I suppose much of it did read like hazy recollections. I tell you, no, it was like this. Sylvia reads as most difficult to live with. That came through in the real biography I read, and even a little in the Bell Jar. Can't blame Ted for his leaving of her, only for the manner of it.