Book Review
Euphoria: Spirited reimagining of Plath’s life shows why the poet’s writing lives on
Elin Cullhed’s fictional account of the poet and novelist’s final year, told in the first person, is more concerned with her enduring art than her tragic death
Delving into the life of a real person for the purposes of fiction is a murky business. Curtis Sittenfeld did it in Rodham, a reimagining of the life of Hillary Clinton (née Rodham) that left some readers enthralled and others perplexed. It raised ethical questions that are not easy to answer. Was it okay to narrate, in the first-person, a life that belonged to someone else?
Similar questions apply to Euphoria, the debut novel for ...
