Tuesday, March 26, 19.30:248 p.m., room XNUMX, the monthly meeting of the reading club was held American Studies Book & Movie Club, under the auspices of the Center for American Studies of the Faculty of Letters, History and Theology. In the event coordinated by lect. Dr. Cristina Băniceru and assistant. Dr. Loredana Bercuci discussed Sylvia Plath's semi-autobiographical novel, The Glass Bell, written under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. The debate was moderated, as usual, by the person who proposed the book, Lidia Mihai, second-year student, Modern Languages ​​and Literatures, Romanian-English specialization. Important themes were discussed such as the main character Esther Greenwood's bitter struggle with depression, but also the author's, crushed by the same soul turmoil, the internalized misogyny that haunts the heroine, the metaphor of the glass bell, that prison of the mind from which Esther struggles to escape. it turns out, the context in which the novel was written, unfavorable for a woman trying to juggle the demands imposed by a conservative, deeply patriarchal society, but also with the desire to be a writer appreciated and taken seriously. The students also established topical links, focusing on women's rights, which are increasingly fragile and difficult to defend in the context of the radicalization of society.