"Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams": Paisaje y simbolismos en los ensayos y relatos de Sylvia Plath.

Abstract

This article focuses on Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams, the only remaining compilation of short stories by Sylvia Plath. These pieces, belonging to different moments ofher life as a writer, show, if contrasted, a tendency towards the elimination of details in the description of the scenery where the acÚon takes place. Besides this progressive elimination of details we also obsen'e in Plath 's short stories a tendency to show a scenery that has human qualities and that reflects the main characters 'mood and mental and physical state with increasing frequency. In such a way, the writer's short stories show as well what is very characteristic of Plath 's last poetry, i. e., that physical and mental landscapes become progressively one and the same thing in her writing.