Censoring poetics through translation: the filtered reception of Sylvia Plath in Franco’s Spain

Inthis article I analyze Sylvia Plath’s reception in Spain during the Francoist dictatorship. Considering feminist features that author and her oeuvrepresent, examine conclusions drawn by Censorship Board when Spanish publishing houses requested to issue works translation. The censorship import files stored at General Archive of Administrationin Madrid confirm thatseveral publishers repeatedly applied for permission translate only novel, Bell Jar, into Catalan from 1967 1982; a compilation poems 1974; famous poetry collection, Ariel,in 1968. Nevertheless, censors’ notes verdicts reveal literary depth was neither admired nor understood ones who authorized, censored, or rejected different editions work.