《钟罩》是美国著名的当代女诗人、女作家，1982年普利策诗歌奖得主西尔维娅·普拉斯的一部自传体小说，也是她唯一的一部长篇小说，被美国文学界视为当代文学经典。小说截取了作者本人短短一生中极富戏剧性的一幕：1953年夏，二十岁的普拉斯收获了写作生涯的第一份殊荣，在某时尚杂志举办的全国小说竞赛中荣获大奖，但她刚刚享受完前往纽约的荣誉之旅，却旋即陷入了抑郁症与精神失常的漩涡，一度自杀未遂，在随后的短短一年中经历了从璀璨的领奖台到阴森的精神病院、从生到死再得以复生的惊涛骇浪。(The Bell Jar is a semi-autobiographical novel and the only full-length novel written by the American writer and poet Sylvia Plath, a winner Pulitzer Prize of Poetry in 1982. This novel is viewed as a contemporary literature classic by the American literary circle. The novel selects a extremely dramatic period of the author's short life: in the summer of 1953, the 20-year-old Plath received the first award in her writing career, winning the first prize in a national fiction contest sponsored by a fashion magazine; however, just after she finished enjoying the honor trip to New York, she soon entered a whirlpool of depression and mental disorders, and even attempted suicide once. In the short year afterwards, she had experienced the process from the bright podium to the gloomy mental hospital, from living to death and then to a rebirth.)